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#gnunet

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George Ellenburg (he/him/his)

Did you know that #GNU/ #FSF has its own #darknet application and protocol stack?

What is #GNUnet?

GNUnet is an #alternative #network stack for building #secure, #decentralized and #privacy-preserving #distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure #publication of #files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet.

Today, the actual use and thus the social requirements for a global network differs widely from those goals of 1970. While the Internet remains suitable for military use, where the network equipment is operated by a command hierarchy and when necessary isolated from the rest of the world, the situation is less tenable for civil society.

Due to fundamental Internet design choices, Internet traffic can be misdirected, intercepted, censored and manipulated by hostile routers on the network. And indeed, the modern Internet has evolved exactly to the point where, as Matthew Green put it, "the network is hostile".

We believe liberal societies need a #network #architecture that uses the #anti-authoritarian #decentralized #peer-to-peer paradigm and #privacy-preserving #cryptographic #protocols. The goal of the GNUnet project is to provide a Free Software realization of this ideal.
https://www.gnunet.org/en/index.html
www.gnunet.orgGNUnetGNU's framework for secure p2p networking
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marado

#GNUnet 0.24.0 released

"We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.24.0.

GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications.

Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet.

This is a new major release. Major versions may break protocol compatibility with the 0.23.0X versions. Please be aware that Git master is thus henceforth (and has been for a while) INCOMPATIBLE with the 0.23.0X GNUnet network, and interactions between old and new peers will result in issues. In terms of usability, users should be aware that there are still a number of known open issues in particular with respect to ease of use, but also some critical privacy issues especially for mobile users. Also, the nascent network is tiny and thus unlikely to provide good anonymity or extensive amounts of interesting information. As a result, the 0.24.0 release is still only suitable for early adopters with some reasonable pain tolerance."

gnunet.org/en/news/2025-03-0.2

www.gnunet.orgGNUnetGNU's framework for secure p2p networking
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Tobias Frisch

@fosstastic Habe irgendwann angefangen an einem dezentralen Messenger mit #GNUnet zu arbeiten, weil mich Matrix nicht völlig überzeugt hat zu dem Zeitpunkt. Es ist seitdem besser geworden in manchen Aspekten, aber alleine die Föderalisierung mit Accounts pro Server halte ich für einen zu großen Reibungspunkt, dass die meisten Nutzer bereits bei Funktionen wie dem Einladen in Chats oder dem Registrieren keine Lust mehr haben zu wechseln.

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That Vasket

@maikel only a virtual network but #yggdrasil does it via LAN discovery and explicit named nodes unless you want a global network without initial node it schoud work via meshing. #reticulum also does something similar with local broadcast via TCP/UDP and a custum #Lora protocoll.

#gnunet also does local discovery with optional server iirc. Also has a ton of old academic stuff (like search in distributed networks) on #p2p in general but is far from usable.

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