Projects

Tor

Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on ... [More] which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features. Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers called onion routers, protecting you from websites that build profiles of your interests, local eavesdroppers that read your data [Less]

The Freenet Project

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 ... [More] 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. [Less]

I2P

I2P is an anonymous network, exposing a simple layer that applications can use to anonymously and securely send messages to each other. The network itself is strictly message based (ala IP), but there is a library available to allow reliable streaming communication on top of it (ala TCP). All ... [More] communication is end to end encrypted (in total there are four layers of encryption used when sending a message), and even the end points ("destinations") are cryptographic identifiers (essentially a pair of public keys). [Less]

JXTA JXSE

The JXSE project is a complete reference implementation of the JXTA protocols built using Java Standard Edition 5.0. The JXSE project was the original JXTA implementation and was built in Java because Java enabled us to rapidly prototype and test new ideas and develop a more robust implementation. ... [More] Java is available for most operating systems (Solaris, Unix, Windows, MacOS, etc.) and allows us to reach the maximum number of potential users. [Less]

GNUnet

GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing. GNUnet uses a simple, excess-based economic model to allocate ... [More] resources. Peers in GNUnet monitor each others behavior with respect to resource usage; peers that contribute to the network are rewarded with better service. [Less]

DocSharePoint

Open Source Peer To Peer application based on pastry

TorStatus

TorStatus is an application which shows the current status of all of the routers on Tor at any given time. More information can be found on Tor at http://tor.eff.org.

Flox

A project in progress that will speed up the G2-network by using the similarity in files instead of the complete file.

Dijjer

Dijjer is free P2P software that dramatically reduces the bandwidth needed to host large files. A type of distributed web cache, Dijjer nodes rely on a small number of "seed" peers, through which new Dijjer peers can assimilate into the Dijjer network. These are not essential however ... [More] , you can (through use of Dijjer's command line interface) instruct Dijjer to assimilate through any Dijjer peer. You could even create a network of Dijjer nodes that is entirely separate from the main Dijjer network. [Less]

splay-project

SPLAY is a research project conducted since 2004 at the Computer Science Department of the University of Neuchâtel. SPLAY aims at simplifying the prototyping and development of large-scale distributed applications and overlay networks. Unlike many existing tools, SPLAY puts emphasis on deployment ... [More] and runtime. It allows developers to specify distributed applications in a concise way using a specialized language based on Lua, a highly-efficient embeddable scripting language. SPLAY applications execute in a safe environment with restricted access to local resources (file system, network, memory) and can be instantiated on a large set of nodes with a single command. [Less]