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.

Freenet
Developer(s)[1]
Initial releaseMarch 2000 (2000-03)
Stable release
0.7.5 (Build 1492) (October 28, 2021 (2021-10-28)[2]) [±]
Repository
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform: Unix-like (Android, Linux, BSD, macOS), Microsoft Windows
PlatformJava
Available inEnglish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Chinese[3]
TypeAnonymity application, peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend, overlay network, mix network, distributed data store
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitefreenetproject.org

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.[4] Freenet is free software.

  • 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
  1. "People". Freenet: The Free Network official website. 22 September 2008. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  2. "Releases · freenet/fred". github.com. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  3. Language specific versions of Freenet, GitHub: Freenet.
  4. "Freenet News". Archived from the original on 2009-04-26. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
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