Freenet - introductory
It is an attempt to eliminate the censorship of user communications. Essentially, Freenet is based on the belief that no one is allowed to decide what is acceptable. The network encourages tolerance for the values of others, and in the absence of the latter, users are asked to close their eyes to content that contradicts their views.
Principle of operation
The Freenet network is built on the basis of combining its own bandwidth and disk space of its computers into a common pool provided by its members for publishing on the network or receiving various kinds of data from it. Freenet uses a variation on key routing, similar to a distributed hash table, needed to locate user data. The network stores data and allows you to retrieve it using the key associated with them, similar to a similar scheme in the HTTP protocol.
Data confidentiality is guaranteed by strict cryptography — in order to receive a file, a request must be communicated with an associated key. The role of such a key is performed by the file hash or DSA key, which also forms the integrity check mechanism.
The network provides high performance with complete anonymity and decentralization of all internal processes. It does not have central servers and is not under the control of any persons or organizations. Even the creators of Freenet have no control over the entire network, except that they update the code. The information transmitted to the network is encrypted and distributed throughout the world through the numerous anonymous computers on the network that constantly exchange this information. Theoretically, it is very difficult to determine which participant stores a particular file, since the contents of each file are encrypted and can be split into parts that are distributed among many different computers.
The network has been developed since 2000, and although its client has not yet reached its release status, the existing versions 0.x are sufficiently stable to perform their functions. When you first connect to the network, data transfer is much slower than analogs, but as you work on the network, the speed increases.
Install and configure the client
The Freenet client for Windows, OS X, or Linux can be downloaded at: freenetproject.org/download.html. After installing the client, you need to open in the browser a page with the address http://127.0.0.1:8888/.
For greater security when working on Freenet, a separate browser should be enabled for Freenet, preferably in privacy mode. It should be noted that the Internet Explorer browser does not work stably with Freenet, therefore it is better to use Chrome, Firefox or Opera.
In case of successful installation and launch of the client, you will see a page where you need to configure everything.
At this point you can:
1) Choose a connection method: open - to any network users, closed - to friends who already use Freenet, or manually adjust the degree of protection. As a rule, new users start with an insecure connection method and, when ten or more friends are added, switch to safe mode.
2) During the setup process, you will be asked to use a private browser mode, select a storage size in the range from 0.5 to 500 GB (the more, the higher the exchange rate), specify the connection speed (select a specific value by setting the switch or enter your own - for example : 100 MiB), etc.
* Later you can change these settings in the corresponding section of the page http://127.0.0.1:8888/seclevels/.
* After the settings are completed, the network control panel will be available at http://127.0.0.1:8888/.
Enjoy using!
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