Share, Chat, Browse. Anonymously. On the Free Network.
Freenet is a software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites" (web sites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship.
This application is decentralised so as to make it less vulnerable to attacks, and when used in "darknet" mode, which means that users only connect to their pre-defined friends, it can be very difficult to detect.
Communications by Freenet nodes are encrypted and are routed through other nodes to make it extremely difficult to determine who is requesting the information and what its content is.
Users contribute to the network by giving bandwidth and a portion of their hard drive (called the "data store") for storing files. Files are automatically kept or deleted depending on how popular they are, with the least popular being discarded to make way for newer or more popular content.
Files are encrypted, so generally the user cannot easily discover what is in his datastore, and hopefully can't be held accountable for it. Chat forums, websites, and search functionality, are all built on top of this distributed data store.
This application is decentralised so as to make it less vulnerable to attacks, and when used in "darknet" mode, which means that users only connect to their pre-defined friends, it can be very difficult to detect.
Communications by Freenet nodes are encrypted and are routed through other nodes to make it extremely difficult to determine who is requesting the information and what its content is.
Users contribute to the network by giving bandwidth and a portion of their hard drive (called the "data store") for storing files. Files are automatically kept or deleted depending on how popular they are, with the least popular being discarded to make way for newer or more popular content.
Files are encrypted, so generally the user cannot easily discover what is in his datastore, and hopefully can't be held accountable for it. Chat forums, websites, and search functionality, are all built on top of this distributed data store.
Requirements:
· Java Runtime 1.4 or higher
· At least 128MB of RAM, so unless the system does nothing else it will struggle in less than 512MB.
· At least 650 MB of free disk space
· Java Runtime 1.4 or higher
· At least 128MB of RAM, so unless the system does nothing else it will struggle in less than 512MB.
· At least 650 MB of free disk space
What's New in This Release:
· Allow plugins to exempt themselves from the content filter.
· Low-level change paving the way to a load management change in the next build, very minor tweaks to routing.
· Fix GetCHKOnly
· Fix a USK subscription leak, and various other minor client layer changes.
· Add PrivateURI to FCP PersistentPut/PersistentPutDir. (Be careful when reporting FCP logs)
· Improvements to CompatibilityMode and PersistentGet.
· Improvements to the bandwidth page on the first-time wizard.
· Wait 100ms before trying to search the disk to get more entropy on startup, and fix a rare crypto bug (not serious).
· German update.
· New versions of Freetalk and WebOfTrust.
· Filter fixes.
· Always use AIMDs (like Freenet was in July and earlier). It appears they are essential even with NLM.
· Allow switching advanced simple mode on any page.
· Allow building without junit, if skipping tests.
· Allow plugins to exempt themselves from the content filter.
· Low-level change paving the way to a load management change in the next build, very minor tweaks to routing.
· Fix GetCHKOnly
· Fix a USK subscription leak, and various other minor client layer changes.
· Add PrivateURI to FCP PersistentPut/PersistentPutDir. (Be careful when reporting FCP logs)
· Improvements to CompatibilityMode and PersistentGet.
· Improvements to the bandwidth page on the first-time wizard.
· Wait 100ms before trying to search the disk to get more entropy on startup, and fix a rare crypto bug (not serious).
· German update.
· New versions of Freetalk and WebOfTrust.
· Filter fixes.
· Always use AIMDs (like Freenet was in July and earlier). It appears they are essential even with NLM.
· Allow switching advanced simple mode on any page.
· Allow building without junit, if skipping tests.
Program Information
Developer: Freenet Project Inc.
Price and Added Date
Freeware .24-02-2012
Download Links
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