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GNUnet Anonymous 11/22/15 (Sun) 18:31:21 5016b3 No.120

GNUnet is a fully decentralised p2p framework for a number of applications, the most commonly used one (probably) is filesharing

More info:

https://gnunet.org/goals

https://gnunet.org/concepts

>Why use GNUnet?

>no seeding requirement

>no account needed

>no trusted 3rd parties needed

>no way to trace any traffic back to you, unless you set anonymity to 0

>even just searching for content can be done via GNUnet's anonymous protocol

>anyone can publish anything

>no way for publishers to know who's downloading

>no way for downloaders to know who's publishing (except via optional namespaces)

>Sounds cool, where do I start?

GNUnet QUICKSTART GUIDE FOR FILE SHARING

### INSTALLATION ###

download and install using the package manager of your distro

https://gnunet.org/installation

### POST-INSTALLATION/USAGE ###

*Before doing anything else, run following command in terminal: gnunet-arm -s

To use the GUI, run gnunet-gtk and for setup/settings run gnunet-setup

For help on uploading/searching/downloading files via the GUI, see https://gnunet.org/first-steps-file-sharing

GNUnet can also be used in the terminal

TERMINAL_COMMANDS

To upload a file: gnunet-publish [-n] [-k KEYWORDS]* [-m TYPE:VALUE] FILENAME

*Note: see https://gnunet.org/gnunet-publish for more information

To search a file: gnunet-search "[SEARCH TERM]"

>example: gnunet-search "archive"

To download a file: gnunet-download -o FILENAME – GNUNETURL

*Note: the gnunet-search command will output the command needed to download the desired file

To shut down GNUnet: gnunet-arm -e

### ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ###

https://gnunet.org/installation

https://gnunet.org/user-handbook

I am posting this here because it may be more secure than i2p and is therefore relevant to what we are doing. What do you think, switch to GNUnet or stay on i2p?

HerrHinkler 11/22/15 (Sun) 18:37:59 cfd1f1 No.122

Thanks for the Input. Will you stick around for further information and planning ?

Anonymous 11/22/15 (Sun) 18:50:59 5016b3 No.126

>>122

for some time yes, over on halfchan/g/ they have a thread about gnunet pretty much constantly in case I'm not. maybe a collaboration on these issues would be a good idea. ipfs may also be worth a look but that's still WIP.

HerrHinkler 11/22/15 (Sun) 18:53:53 cfd1f1 No.127

>>126

We already looked at ipfs and it seems great, especially in combination with i2p.

You don't have to be on here constantly, I was talking about maybe coming around once a day, since this board isn't that active yet.

A collaboration would be great.

Anonymous 11/22/15 (Sun) 23:25:37 579b16 No.188

Some faggots were planning to use IPFS with I2P on the old /a/ thread. I'm not very /teach/ knowledgeable, what would be better?

Anonymous 11/22/15 (Sun) 23:45:38 c064d1 No.193

>>188

IPFS shill here (unrelated to whatever that was in /a/), I made an IPFS thread: >>>/eternalarchive/191

Gnunet has three main advantages over ipfs in its current state, keeping in mind that ipfs is currently alpha software and gnunet is beta software:

- The GNS is a fully distributed, trustless name system that gnunet has to register easy to read .gnu domain names. IPFS uses DNS which is hierarchical and thus trustful (but not all that unsafe with dnscrypt, dnssec and unbound).

-gnunet uses keywords by design, allowing you to search for files by keyword. This can be useful to collect information without having to share the hashes all the time, just decide on a keyword to use and the files can be found with gnunet-search "keyword". ipfs plans to have such a feature "maybe".

-anonymity is available and enabled by default, whereas ipfs expects you to use additional software like i2p or tor on top of it to get anonymity.

However, ipfs has many advantages of its own:

-content-addressed, so if 2 people upload the same file, they both act as seeds for the same request instead of for different but identical-in-content requests.

-modular and composable, so it can be implemented gradually and augmented naturally (such as by using i2p on top, or changing the domain name system used)

-very fast (it takes a long time to find files, and an even longer time to start downloading them in gnunet. Then you get a peak average download speed of 20kB/s with anonymity set to 0, around 5-8kB/s with anonymity set to 1 - more like 800-1400 kB/s on ipfs)

Additionally, I consider the anonymity solution being outside the goals of the project to be a good thing since we can leverage the large i2p userbase and we aren't vulnerable to a 51% attack this way.

There is also more interest in ipfs than gnunet: neocities runs on ipfs now, ethereum (a smart contract framework - a way to get dynamic decentralized and distributed websites going) uses it for file sharing, there are plans with a major browser vendor to get native ipfs support, and so on.