Alfis

Alternative Free Identity System

This project represents a minimal blockchain without cryptocurrency, capable of sustaining any number of domain names in a bunch of original alternative zones.

Note

The origin of current testnet is 0000001D2A77D63477172678502E51DE7F346061FF7EB188A2445ECA3FC0780E.

How it works?

Every node connects to its siblings and synchronizes the domain database. This DB consists of cryptographically bound blocks, that contain encrypted domain names, contacts, and some info, if you wish. There are 10 domain zones available to get domain in: .anon, .btn, .conf, .index, .merch, .mirror, .mob, .screen, .srv, .ygg. But, .anon and .ygg are bound to have IP-addresses from Yggdrasil Network only.

Building and running

On every OS

You can download and run already built binaries from releases, or you can build project yourself.

You can build Alfis by issuing cargo build and cargo run commands in a directory of cloned repository. If you want to build release version you need to do cargo build --release as usual.

On Windows

You don't need any additional steps to build Alfis, just stick to the MSVC version of Rust.

If you see an error about missing VCRUNTIME140.dll when running alfis you will need to install VC Redistributable from Microsoft.

If you want to use modern browser engine from Edge instead of old from IE, you need to build with this command: cargo build --release --features "edge" (or use corresponding build from releases).

On Windows (MINGW64)

If you'd rather use Gnu version of Rust you can build Alfis by these steps:

pacman -S git mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-rust mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cargo-c
git clone https://github.com/Revertron/Alfis.git
cd Alfis
cargo build

On Linux

If you are building on Linux you must ensure that you have libwebkitgtk library installed. You can do it by issuing this command: sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev (on Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives).

On Arch Linux

Install from available AUR package created by @pztrn:

yay -S alfis

On Nix/NixOS

nix-shell in this repo and then run cargo build and cargo install after you have entered the shell.

Installation

Debian/Ubuntu (only blockchain DNS, without GUI)

If you want to just use ALFIS as a DNS daemon and resolve domains in blockchain, as well as clearnet domains. You just need to install alfis service from repo and change your resolver in /etc/resolv.conf. Beware of NetworkManager, it can change your resolvers at will.

1. Download repository public key and add it to your APT

wget -O - https://deb.revertron.com/key.txt | sudo apt-key add -

2. Add repository path to sources list

echo 'deb http://deb.revertron.com/ debian alfis' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/alfis.list

3. Update packages and install ALFIS

sudo apt update && sudo apt install alfis

4. Enable and start the service

systemctl enable --now alfis

After that configuration is in file /etc/alfis.conf and data is saved to /var/lib/alfis. If you have some DNS server bound to port 53, it will not properly start. Deal with it on your own.

GUI version Windows/Linux/macOS (if you want to create and change domains)

If you want to create and manage your own domains on blockchain, you will need a version with GUI. You can download it from releases section, choose appropriate OS and architecture version. It needs to be without nogui suffix.

Just unzip that archive in some directory and run alfis (or alfis.exe) binary. By default, it searches for config file, named alfis.toml in current working directory, and creates/changes blockchain.db file in the same directory. If you want it to load config from another file you can command it so: alfis -c /etc/alfis.conf.

Roadmap

1. Stabilize blockchain functions (domain transfer, info & contacts in UI), bug hunting and fixing.
2. Change DNS server/proxy to own resource saving implementation (using trust-dns-proto for RR parsing).
3. P2P traffic encryption (ECDH).
4. Web-GUI to manage you node from browser.