Projects tagged ‘internet’, ‘networking’, and ‘p2p’

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 ... [More] the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on 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]

Alvaro's Messenger is a Tcl/Tk client for MSN Messenger. Its features include multi-language support, smileys, docking support for KDE 3 and GNOME 2 (FreeDesktop compatibility), logging, profiles support, email notification, customizable sounds ... [More] , group management, file transfers with NAT support, and proxy support. Some special features include the possibility of knowing who has deleted you from his/her list, connecting "silently" (appearing invisible), and so on. [Less]

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) ... [More] , 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. [Less]

Phex is a cross-platform P2P filesharing client which is based on the Gnutella network. It offers advanced functions and integrates all common Gnutella extensions like * the Download Mesh and Partial File Sharing for decentral swarming ... [More] downloads from multiple sources * Dynamic Querying and the Query Routing Protocol for improved search and network performance * UDP Host Caching for better connectivity and many other optimizations. [Less]

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 ... [More] ideas and develop a more robust implementation. Java is available for most operating systems (Solaris, Unix, Windows, MacOS, etc.) and allows us to reach the maximum number of potential users. [Less]

What's Nicotine? Nicotine is a SoulSeek client written in Python, based on the PySoulSeek project by Alexander Kanavin. It features, among other things, a completely rewritten graphical user interface which uses the PyGTK-2 toolkit and a less strict ... [More] user request policy. What's Nicotine+? Nicotine-Plus is a fork of Hyriand's original Nicotine Soulseek client. [Less]

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 ... [More] simple, excess-based economic model to allocate 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]

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 ... [More] streaming communication on top of it (ala TCP). All 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]

JMeeting is a next generation type of business or personal meeting. JMeeting will have audio, video and chat conferencing easily set up and viewable. JMeeting will be able to share and create presentations. During the meeting you can click present ... [More] and it will present the presentation or document full screen to all users with a red laser to show important points. [Less]

What is Museek? Museek is a file-sharing application for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network. It is written in C++. When active SVN development ceased for several months, impatience set in, and Museek-Plus was created. Hyriand, the author of ... [More] Museek, is also the author of Nicotine, another Soulseek client. Since Hyriand is again actively developing a rewrite of museekd, so the term 'fork' is getting a little tired. Museek+, an active fork of Museek Museek+ (or Museek-Plus) is an enhanced sourcecode tarball of Museek that is now has Room Searching, Buddy-only shares, Interests. New features in Museeq include the addition of Banlists, Ignorelists, Icon Themes and Font/Color selecting. Other assorted fixes, enhancements, and icons from contributing Museek users are included. [Less]

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

Soulfind is a free Soulseek server program, compatible with most current Unix clients (at least cursedsouls, PySlsk, Nicotine, and Museek), with most of its features but no distribution of searches.