Freenet
Freenet is a decentralized (hosted on many machines) network., It is censorship-resistant, which means it is not easy for anyone other than authors to remove content. The data is stored on many machines. Freenet was made by Ian Clarke. Freenet has a goal to provide freedom of speech and Freedom of information through a peer-to-peer network with protection of user's identity. Freenet works by putting together the volunteer bandwidth and storage space of member machines to allow users to anonymously publish (place or upload) or retrieve (get or download) different kinds of information. From a user's perspective, it can be thought of as simply a large storage device.
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| The_welcome_page_of_Freenet_Hyphanet.png FProxy index page (Freenet 0.7.5) | |
| Developer(s) | [1] |
|---|---|
| Initial release | March 2000 |
| Stable release | Template:Latest stable software release/Freenet |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform: Unix-like (Android, Linux, BSD, macOS), Microsoft Windows |
| Platform | Java |
| Available in | English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Chinese[2] |
| Type | Anonymity application, peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend, overlay network, mix network, distributed data store |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | freenetproject |
Freenet has been under continuous development since 2000; a version 1.0 has not yet been released but current builds are usable. The project has already seen a ground-up rewrite (redoing of programming) for version 0.7.[3] Freenet is free software.
Freenet Media
The Freenet 0.7 darknet peers list.
A typical request sequence. The request moves through the network from node to node, backing out of a dead-end (step 3) and a loop (step 7) before locating the desired file.
The effect of the node specialising on the particular location.
Screenshot of Frost running on Microsoft Windows
Related pages
- Anonymous P2P
- Crypto-anarchism
- Cypherpunk
- distributed file system
- Entropy (anonymous data store)
- Freedom of information
- Friend-to-friend
- GNUnet
- I2P
- Osiris sps
- Tor (anonymity network)
- Share - the successor to Winny
- Perfect Dark - the successor to Share; it employs many of Freenet's principles.
References
- ↑ "People". Freenet: The Free Network official website. 22 September 2008. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
- ↑ Language specific versions of Freenet, GitHub: Freenet.
- ↑ "Freenet News". Archived from the original on 2009-04-26. Retrieved 2009-08-02.