GNUnet
Sign in to savethumb|Christian Grothoff, maintainer of GNUnet, in [[Berlin on August 1, 2013, at the "#youbroketheinternet. We'll make ourselves a GNU one." event]] GNUnet is a software framework for decentralized, peer-to-peer networking and an official GNU package. The framework offers link encryption, peer discovery, resource allocation, communication over many transports (such as TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, WLAN and Bluetooth) and various basic peer-to-peer algorithms for routing, multicast and network size estimation.
Key facts
- Software.name
- GNUnet
- Software.logo
- 250px
- Software.screenshot
- Gnunet-gtk_0.10_under_arch-gnulinux.png
- Software.caption
- GNUnet with the GTK+ user interface
- Software.developer
- GNUnet e.V.
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- official: Free software operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD);unofficial: Other operating systems (OS X, Windows)
- Software.language
- Spanish, English, Russian, German, French
- Software.genre
- Anonymous P2P, Friend-to-friend
- Software.license
- 2018: AGPL-3.0-or-later2007: GPL-3.0-or-later2001: GPL-2.0-or-later
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- Transport
- Trust system
- File sharing
- File encoding
- Queries and replies
- File sharing URIs
- Examples
- GNU Name System
- Protocol translation
- Social API
- Chat
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further references
- External links
thumb|Christian Grothoff, maintainer of GNUnet, in [[Berlin on August 1, 2013, at the "#youbroketheinternet. We'll make ourselves a GNU one." event]] GNUnet is a software framework for decentralized, peer-to-peer networking and an official GNU package. The framework offers link encryption, peer discovery, resource allocation, communication over many transports (such as TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, WLAN and Bluetooth) and various basic peer-to-peer algorithms for routing, multicast and network size estimation.
GNUnet's basic network topology is that of a mesh network. GNUnet includes a distributed hash table (DHT) which is a randomized variant of Kademlia that can still efficiently route in small-world networks. GNUnet offers a "F2F topology" option for restricting connections to only the users' trusted friends. The users' friends' own friends (and so on) can then indirectly exchange files with the users' computer, never using its IP address directly.