So some of these might actually be one of the oldest #fastd VPN keys ever. As @neocturne had started that whole fastd project back then here at @ffhl and even wrote (bachelor?) theses on it. To have a VPN solution on these 500 MHz MIPS routers which would finally have some decent throughput performance. #tinc or even worse #OpenVPN just did not cut it speed wise back then. And all other #Linux kernel solutions back then had major drawbacks (like not working with NAT if I recall correctly)

Also that commit was actually a bit sentimental. It contained more than 1100 #fastd VPN public keys from 13 years of running @ffhl. All these keys were at some point manually added by a real person, often followed by another, nice, custom, manual, non-AI generated email reply to inform the person that the key they had mailed was added.
Now we'll try a new approach @ffhl though, to allow a node to submit and enable the VPN public key of a neighbor node in physical proximity.
#Freifunk