02 // Binary Wire Architecture
One Unmodified "NL" Envelope Across UDP, CGNAT & L2 ESP-NOW
Every NLTP packet starts with 0x4E 0x4C ("NL") and runs the exact same zero-heap state machine whether carried inside an Internet UDP datagram, a 1-port CGNAT relay room, or an off-grid IEEE 802.11 ESP-NOW action frame.
01 // ALGEBRAIC LOSS HEALING
GF(2^8) Cauchy Reed-Solomon
Slices payloads into k = 8 shard generations over GF(2^8) (0x11D). Any 8 distinct systematic or Cauchy parity shards solve the generation via Gauss-Jordan elimination (956 MB/s branchless gf_axpy in C99; zero-GF(2^8) fast-path on clean links).
02 // EPHEMERAL FORWARD SECRECY
1-RTT X25519 + PSK Sessions
100-byte HELLO_ACK fits inside a single 250 B ESP-NOW v1 frame, derives directional ChaCha20-Poly1305 keys, wipes ephemeral scalars immediately, and guards a 512-packet RFC 6479 replay window across 10% packet reordering.
03 // BUILT-IN TELEMETRY CODEC
Zero-Dependency LZ4 + Auto-Bypass
Compresses JSONL/CSV/NMEA logs 4×–20× at 1,164 MB/s before FEC slicing, automatically bypasses incompressible JPEGs/ZIPs (0 B inflation), and performs zero-heap in-place decompression on C99/Arduino MCUs.
04 // OUT-OF-BAND CONTROL
Priority Reflex Lane (send_reflex)
Urgent actuator commands (STOP, RESET) bypass multi-megabyte transfers with zero head-of-line blocking, emit cryptic twins, and retransmit with exponential backoff until PT_REFLEX_ACK confirms single delivery.
05 // CROSS-CHIP RADIO MESH
ESP8266 (v1) ↔ ESP32 (v2)
ESP8266 (80 KB SRAM) sends 242 B encrypted v1 frames that any ESP32 hub decodes automatically alongside 1,010 B v2 frames, bypassing ESP-NOW's 6–17 encrypted peer hardware table cap via payload AEAD + LRU eviction.
06 // CELLULAR & WAN TRAVERSAL
STUN Punch + Zero-Key 4G Relay
Queries RFC 5389 STUN on the live socket, punches NATs via TTL=2 probes, supports 0-RTT Wi-Fi ↔ 5G roaming by authenticated conn_id, and falls back to a 1-port UDP NLTPRelayHub that holds zero keys.