ndn-cxx: NDN C++ Library

ndn-cxx is a C++17 library implementing Named Data Networking (NDN) primitives that can be used to write various NDN applications. The library is currently being used by the following projects:

• NFD - NDN Forwarding Daemon

• NLSR - Named-data Link-State Routing protocol

• ndn-tools - Essential NDN command-line tools

• ndn-svs - State Vector Sync library

• PSync - Partial and full Sync library

• ChronoSync - Sync library for distributed real-time applications (deprecated)

• NAC - Name-based Access Control library

• NDNCERT - NDN certificate management protocol

• repo-ng - NDN repository implementation in C++ (deprecated)

• ndn-traffic-generator - Simple NDN traffic generator

Documentation

• Getting started with ndn-cxx

• Trivial applications

• Tutorials

  • NDN Regular Expression

  • Validator Configuration File Format

• Man pages

• Release Notes

• Release History

For developers

• NDN Software Contributor’s Guide (guide for newcomers to the NDN community of software)

• Specifications

  • SafeBag Format for Exported Credentials

  • Signed Interest Version 0.2 (DEPRECATED)

• API documentation (doxygen)

• ndn-cxx Code Style and Coding Guidelines

Issues

Please submit any bug reports or feature requests to the ndn-cxx issue tracker.

License

ndn-cxx is an open source project licensed under the LGPL version 3. For more information about the license, refer to COPYING.md and COPYING.lesser.