Hyphanet
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
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Article
31 sectionsContents
- 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.