What is GNUnet?
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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Security & Privacy
DecentralizedBased on a decentralized infrastructure with no single entity controlling it.
Features Vote on or suggest new features
- Anonymous Secure Filesharing
- Decentralised Name System
- Modularity
- Overlay network
- Peer-To-Peer
- Mesh network
- Distributed
Supported Languages
- English
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Said about GNUnet as an alternative
ZeroTier and GNUNet are not VPNs: they're virtual peer-to-peer network systems, rather than a point-to-network solution like WireGuard or OpenVPN.
gintoki Very much so services which offer a similar featureset
Categories
File Sharing • Backup & Sync • Business & CommerceTags
- Backup
- Accounting
- gnu
- Anonymizing Network
Lists containing GNUnet
Decentralized P2P Networks • decentralized networks • Future Game-changers
GNUnet
Summary
Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about GNUnet, and it has gotten 73 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 May 16, 2022.
Recent user activities on GNUnet
- POX edited GNUnet1 day ago
- imsebi added GNUnet as alternative(s) to Swisscows VPN5 days ago
- imsebi added GNUnet as alternative(s) to Cryptofree7 days ago
Its goals and ways to achieve those seem to be the way to go.
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".