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Here's a few things GNUnet replaces and why it's better: Bittorrent is replaced by GNUnet "filesharing", it's trackerless, it provides a search function, users
by amatus 7y ago
Here's a few things GNUnet replaces and why it's better:
Bittorrent is replaced by GNUnet "filesharing", it's trackerless, it provides a search function, users can adjust their level of anonymity for publishing, downloading, and searching.
DNS is replaced by "GNS", it covers the "decentralized" and "secure" points in Zooko's triangle, it a pet name system.
VPN is replaced by GNUnet VPN, which is just VPN over GNUnet so it can take advantage of the p2p network.
TCP/UDP/SPDY/QUIC is replaced by "cadet", takes advantage of the p2p network.
There's also a DHT.
And there's lots of other stuff that's in-progress.
- ng0 7y agoWe should maybe include a "GNUnet in 5 minutes or less" on the website. The old LEGO analogy is nice, and lynX did a great comparison here: https://secushare.org/img/stack-comparison.png https://secushare.org/img/stack-comparison.png We don't really need the ISO OSI model here, but even this can be added, as we've already used it throughout the years to compare to the GNUnet stack.
- ng0 7y agoI think somewhere we mentioned before that gnunet does not require ISPs and IXPs, but using them today is the de-facto default state.
- no_identd 7y agoMay I draw your attention to my old comment here, as well as (more importantly), the entire thread of even older comments /it/ links to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959687 Which I shall also link to directly, but the above also has some relevance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19864808 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19864808 See especially here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867532 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867532 And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867467
- ng0 7y agoPlease give me a summary of what you intend to express here. I just don't have the time to cherry-pick the information here.