Is there information available about the Levin protocol?

Question

Is there any information available about the Levin protocol?
It seems to be used for the peer to peer communication.

Things like:

1. The working of the protocol?
2. What are the benefits? Why was it chosen for Monero?
3. Is it used in any other product?

Answer 1

I did find the following information:

• Some information about the history you can find here.
• It is part of the so called 'epee' library.
• The creator is a Russian programmer called Andrey N. Sabelnikov, who seems to be well known for creating a botnet.
• The original code is located on Github.
• It doesn't seem to be used anywhere else besides some cryptocurrencies with a similar background as Monero.
• On the site of the Boolberry cryptocurrency you can find some design information.

Answer 2

You may also see here for their repo docs.