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    GNUnet

    • Free • Open Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
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    GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing. Anonymity is provided by making messages originating from a peer indistinguishable from messages that the peer is routing. All peers act as routers and use link-encrypted connections with stable bandwidth utilization to communicate with each other. GNUnet uses a simple, excess-based economic model to allocate resources. Peers in GNUnet monitor each others behavior with respect to resource usage; peers that contribute to the network are rewarded with better service.
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    Features Vote on or suggest new features

    • Decentralised Name System
    • Decentralized
    • Anonymous Secure Filesharing
    • Modularity
    • Overlay network
    • Backup
    • Accounting
    • Mesh network
    • Distributed
    • Peer-To-Peer

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    tabakis
    Comment • about 7 years ago • 0 replies
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    The biggest change, cryptographic primitives: "GNUnet used RSA 2048 since its inception in 2001, but as of GNUnet 0.10.0, we are powered by Curve25519". This change "breaks backwards compatibility entirely".

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    resu
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    • Positive comment • about 1 month ago • 0 replies
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    Its goals and ways to achieve those seem to be the way to go.

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    Categories

    File Sharing • Backup & Sync • Business & Commerce

    Tags

    • gnu

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     Official Website

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    Source, Ubuntu Software Center
    GNUnet

    Summary and Relevance

    Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about GNUnet, and it has gotten 68 likes

    • Developed by Christian Grothoff
    • Open Source and Free product.
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    GNUnet was added to AlternativeTo by ondrapelech on Oct 31, 2009 and this page was last updated Jan 19, 2021.
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