Keet: Peer-to-Peer Communication Free From Central Control

Centralized messaging platforms routinely expose user communications to third-party data collection, government oversight, and sudden platform changes. Keet offers an alternative by operating without central servers, routing traffic directly between participants.

Complete Data Sovereignty

Traditional communication tools process messages, voice calls, and file transfers through enterprise data centers. Keet eliminates this infrastructure entirely using a peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture developed on the Pear Runtime and Holepunch protocol stack:

• Direct Device-to-Device Connections: All media streams, text chats, and files flow straight from your hardware to the recipient.
  
  • Data bypasses third-party relay servers entirely.
• Zero Cloud Storage: No central database stores your message history or metadata. Data resides strictly on your local devices.
• Cryptographic Authentication: Accounts operate without phone numbers, email addresses, or personal identifiers. Access and identities rely on cryptographic key pairs.

No Country Borders, No Artificial Limits

Because Keet connects devices via a Distributed Hash Table (HyperDHT), communication remains accessible anywhere an internet connection exists:

• Borderless Reach: Data path selection relies on direct IP connections rather than regional data center routing.
• Unrestricted Large File Transfers: Files stream directly from your local drive using the Hyperdrive P2P protocol, bypassing artificial file-size caps imposed by cloud servers.
  
  • Transfer speeds are governed only by line bandwidth between peers.
• Resistance to Oversight: Without a centralized entity holding user data or encryption keys, external entities cannot intercept or audit centralized databases.

VPN Friendly and Censorship Resistant

Keet uses NAT hole-punching techniques to establish direct encrypted links between peers. The network is fully compatible with Virtual Private Networks (VPNs):

• Encouraged VPN Usage: Running Keet over a VPN hides your physical IP address from direct peers while maintaining optimal P2P transfer performance.
• Resilient Protocol: Built-in connection handshakes allow nodes to discover each other dynamically, even behind restrictive firewalls and network address translators.

Get keet at keet.io