About:
Freenet is a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without fear of censorship. It is completely decentralized (there is no person or computer essential to its operation), meaning that Freenet cannot be attacked like centralized peer-to-peer systems such as Napster. Freenet also employs intelligent routing and caching to learn to route requests more efficiently, automatically mirror popular data, make network flooding almost impossible, and move data to where it is in greatest demand.

Author:
Ian Clarke [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
7.91/10.00 (13 votes)

Homepage:
http://freenetproject.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://freenetproject.org/download.html
Changelog:
http://archives.freenetproject.org/list/cvs.en.html
OS X package:
http://freenetproject.org/download.html
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://freenet.cvs.sourceforge.net/freenet/
Bug tracker:
https://bugs.freenetproject.org/

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		No Input/Output (Daemon), Web Environment
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		Java
[Topic]		Communications, Internet

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Development	0.7a2	29-Jan-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Stable	0.7 RC 2	24-Apr-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

• Kenosis and the World Free Web
  by Eric Ries , in Project Reviews
  Sat, Jan 8th 2005 00:00
  
• The World Free Web
  by Eric Ries , in Editorials
  Sat, Jul 29th 2000 23:59
  
• Client As Server: The New Model
  by David Weekly , in Editorials
  Sun, Apr 16th 2000 23:59
  

 Comments

[»] Key Index Server
by Brandon Wiley - Apr 11th 2000 02:35:41

If you want to find out what others are inserting into Freenet, use the -keyindex option with the request client to get the list of keys registered with a particular Key Index Server. You can add a key to the list by using the -keyindex option with the insert client. You can also add and view keys manually from a key index server with your web browser. This is just a cheap hack to make it easy for beta testers to find keys to request.

There is a list of public key index servers at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~blanu/keyindex.html

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[»] No longer applies
by Ian Clarke - Apr 10th 2002 13:45:39

This comment is no longer applicable to Freenet.

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