Introduction

Welcome to The Dat Protocol, a technical book about The Dat Project. The Dat protocol is a p2p hypermedia protocol. It provides public-key-addressed file archives which can be synced securely and browsed on-demand.

Who This Book Is For

This book is written for people interested in understanding the details of the Dat protocol, and potentially implementing parts of it themselves. We go into details about the different components that make up the protocol, and provide guidance on how to approach an implementation yourself.

This book is different from the Dat Enhancement Proposals (DEPs). DEPs focus on creating standardization and specification of the Dat protocol. This book focuses on providing an introduction to key concepts, and guidance on how to implement them.

Source Code

The source files from which this book is generated can be found on GitHub.