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Hyphanet
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Also known as FUQID, Freenet Utility for Queued Inserts and Downloads

Hyphanet (until mid-2023: Freenet) is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication. It uses a decentralized distributed data store to keep and deliver information, and has a suite of free software for publishing and communicating on the Web without fear of censorship. Both Freenet and some of its associated tools were originally designed by Ian Clarke, who defined Freenet's goal as providing freedom of speech on the Internet with strong anonymity protection.

Key facts

Software.name
Hyphanet
Software.logo
Freenet logo.svg
Software.screenshot
The_welcome_page_of_Freenet_Hyphanet.png
Software.caption
FProxy index page (Freenet 0.7)
Software.discontinued
No
Software.repo
https://github.com/hyphanet/fred
Software.programming language
Java
Software.operating system
Cross-platform: Unix-like (Android, Linux, BSD, macOS), Microsoft Windows
Software.platform
Java
Software.language
English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Chinese, Russian
Software.genre
Anonymity application, peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend, overlay network, mix network, distributed data store
Software.license
GNU General Public License version 3 only
Software.logo_alt
Logo of Freenet
Software.screenshot_alt
Screenshot of Freenet 0.7.5

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Source code

Freenet is a platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing. It is peer-to-peer software which provides a distributed, encrypted, decentralized datastore. Websites and applications providing things like forums and chat are built on top of it. We've included the Gradle Wrapper as recommended by the Gradle project. If you trust the version we've committed you can build immediately: The installers are built from specialized repositories: The GNU/Linux, macOS and nix installer is built from hyphanet/java installer. The Windows installer is built from hyphanet/wininstaller-innosetup and signed with hyphanet/sign-windows-installer. Free code signing for the Windows installer is provided by SignPath.io, the certificate by the SignPath Foundation. To test your version of Freenet, build it with ,./gradlew jar , stop your node, replace freenet.jar in your Freenet directory with build/libs/freenet.jar , and start your node again. To override values set in build.gradle put them into the file gradle.properties in the format variable = value . For instance: Licensing Freenet is under the GPL, version 2 or later - see LICENSE.Freenet. We use some code under the Apache license version 2 (mostly apache commons stuff), and some modified BSD code (Mantissa). All of which is compatible with the GPL, although arguably ASL2 is only compatible with GPL3. Some plugins are GPL3.

Excerpt from the source-code README · 4,853 chars · not written by Vinony

Wikidata facts

Official website
www.freenetproject.org
Image
The welcome page of Freenet Hyphanet.png
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software version identifier
0.7.5 build 1506
Commons category
Freenet
inception
1999-07-00
source code repository URL
cvs://cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/freenet
name in kana
フリーネット
publication date
2000-07-25
IRC channel URL
irc://irc.libera.chat/#freenet
public key fingerprint
6D5BEF9ADD2075805747B70F9F88FB52FAF7B393
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31 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Name and continuity
  • Release history
  • Features and user interface
  • Content
  • Technical design
  • Distributed storage and caching of data
  • Network
  • Protocol
  • Effect
  • Keys
  • Scalability
  • Empirical measurement
  • Darknet versus opennet
  • Tools and applications
  • Communication
  • Utilities
  • Libraries
  • Vulnerabilities
  • HTL Attack Controversy
  • Vulnerability Court Cases
  • Canada
  • United States
  • Routing Table Insertion (RTI)
  • Notability
  • Freesite
  • See also
  • Comparable software
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

Hyphanet (until mid-2023: Freenet) is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication. It uses a decentralized distributed data store to keep and deliver information, and has a suite of free software for publishing and communicating on the Web without fear of censorship. Both Freenet and some of its associated tools were originally designed by Ian Clarke, who defined Freenet's goal as providing freedom of speech on the Internet with strong anonymity protection.

The distributed data store of Hyphanet is used by many third-party programs and plugins to provide microblogging and media sharing, anonymous and decentralised version tracking, blogging, a generic web of trust for decentralized spam resistance, Shoeshop for using Freenet over sneakernet, and many more.

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