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It looks like telehash aims to be a substrate for building p2p apps. It basically solves addressing and NAT for you which are always the first things you have to deal with in a p2p system on the public internet.

This wiki page seems a little clearer, though anything prefaced with "My Understanding" might be a little suspect.

https://github.com/quartzjer/TeleHash/wiki/My-Understanding-...

So my understanding of that is that TeleHash is something of a cross between BitTorrent and Tor. Theoretically it allows for a totally distributed Internet. Though it looks like the implementation is rough, so it's hard to say how well-defined the protocol is.

Not like Tor, nor like BT, really.

It's more like.. Gnutella and JSON?

It looks like an alternative for DNS. ?

Kind of interesting, but I wonder how it works with security implications.

My guess would be that it doesn't. A public DHT can ensure that data is not corrupted or changed, but you cannot prevent others from seeing your data.

I think the DHT is just used to address peers and do NAT negotiation. There is no need for every message to go through the DHT.