diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 457dc531..df91635b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
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 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
- "syn 2.0.52",
+ "syn 2.0.57",
  "wasm-bindgen-backend",
  "wasm-bindgen-shared",
 ]
@@ -3328,7 +3328,7 @@ checksum = "9ce1b18ccd8e73a9321186f97e46f9f04b778851177567b1975109d26a08d2a6"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
- "syn 2.0.52",
+ "syn 2.0.57",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4150dd99..c5bf25d5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -40,17 +40,22 @@ More benchmark details are available [here](./documents/aquatic-udp-load-test-20
 Please refer to the README pages for the respective implementations listed in
 the table above.
 
-## Support applications
+## Support software
 
-There are also a few support applications:
+There are also some auxiliary applications and libraries.
 
-- [aquatic_udp_load_test](./crates/udp_load_test/) - UDP BitTorrent tracker load tester
-- [aquatic_http_load_test](./crates/http_load_test/) - HTTP BitTorrent tracker load tester
-- [aquatic_ws_load_test](./crates/ws_load_test/) - WebTorrent tracker load tester
+### Protocol-specific
 
-and
+| Protocol   | Tracker load testing                               | Client ⇄ tracker communication                   |
+|------------|----------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|
+| UDP        | [aquatic_udp_load_test](./crates/udp_load_test/)   | [aquatic_udp_protocol](./crates/udp_protocol/)   |
+| HTTP       | [aquatic_http_load_test](./crates/http_load_test/) | [aquatic_http_protocol](./crates/http_protocol/) |
+| WebTorrent | [aquatic_ws_load_test](./crates/ws_load_test/)     | [aquatic_ws_protocol](./crates/ws_protocol/)     |
+
+### General
 
 - [aquatic_bencher](./crates/bencher/) - automated tracker benchmarking
+- [aquatic_peer_id](./crates/peer_id/) - extract BitTorrent client information from peer identifiers
 
 ## Copyright and license