The open-source Aranya Project, written in Rust, includes two main repositories that can be used to integrate with Aranya:

• Aranya provides client APIs in various languages (currently in Rust and C) and the daemon used by clients to interact with Aranya.

• Aranya Core includes the core components of Aranya that allow for interacting with a graph, storage, cryptography, message-sending and syncing.

To test out Aranya for yourself, see the walkthrough. Otherwise, continue reading! This section provides documentation on the core concepts of Aranya.

Terminology

The following terms will be used throughout the documentation to describe Aranya deployments on endpoints. These deployments, or instances, are further defined as specific devices, once the instance is assigned a specific set of cryptographic keys used for identity and authentication and are governed by written policy.

Endpoint: A piece of hardware (e.g. IoT device, computer, cellular phone, etc.) or software (e.g. application) on which Aranya is integrated.

Instance: A single deployment of the Aranya software. To note, each endpoint can have one or many instances deployed on it.

Device: The identity of an instance, given by assigning it a set of cryptographic keys used for identity and authentication.

Policy: Defines specific behaviors, or accepted actions with corresponding commands, that will be generated and executed on the endpoint.