GNUnet is a peer-to-peer framework with focus on providing security. All peer-to-peer messages in the network are confidential and authenticated. The framework provides a transport abstraction layer and can currently encapsulate the network traffic in UDP (IPv4 and IPv6), TCP (IPv4 and IPv6), HTTP, or SMTP messages. GNUnet supports accounting to provide contributing nodes with better service. The primary service build on top of the framework is anonymous file sharing.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds support for Google-style searches and for ranking search results by availability. An improved search protocol gathers more search results and better datastore implementations return more diverse search results while maintaining scalability. Naming of namespaces and pseudonyms was made more user-friendly. Added features include a new integrated hostlist server and a new tool, gnunet-auto-share, for automatic sharing of files in directories. Many other bugfixes and minor improvements were also done.
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