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imported>Martin at 15:20, 18 January 2011

2011-01-18T15:20:54Z

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	==Performance==		==Performance==

	Since content in Freenet is distributed randomly and first needs to be located on request, accessing it is necessarily slower than accessing content on the Web. The documentation claims that performance improves over time <ref>~~{{cite web \|url=~~https://freenetproject.org/faq.html#slow ~~\|title=Freenet FAQ}}~~</ref> (possibly due to caching ???).		Since content in Freenet is distributed randomly and first needs to be located on request, accessing it is necessarily slower than accessing content on the Web. The documentation claims that performance improves over time <ref>[https://freenetproject.org/faq.html#slow]</ref> (possibly due to caching ???).

	==References==		==References==
	~~{{reflist}}~~		<references/>

	==External Links==		==External Links==
	[~~http~~://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Freenet Freenet at Wikipedia] Quite comprehensive Wikipedia entry		[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Freenet Freenet at Wikipedia] Quite comprehensive Wikipedia entry
	[[https://freenetproject.org]] Official website of the project with download
			[https://freenetproject.org Freenet Project] Official website of the project with download

	[[Category:Software]]		[[Category:Software]]

imported>Martin: /* Performance */

2011-01-18T14:56:26Z

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	==Performance==		==Performance==

	Since content in Freenet is distributed randomly and first needs to be located on request, accessing it is necessarily slower than accessing content on the Web. The documentation claims that performance improves over time <ref>[[https://freenetproject.org/faq.html#slow]]</ref> (possibly due to caching ???).		Since content in Freenet is distributed randomly and first needs to be located on request, accessing it is necessarily slower than accessing content on the Web. The documentation claims that performance improves over time <ref>{{cite web \|url=https://freenetproject.org/faq.html#slow \|title=Freenet FAQ}}</ref> (possibly due to caching ???).

	==References==		==References==

imported>Martin: added more sections

2011-01-18T13:03:36Z

added more sections

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	'''Freenet''' is a peer-to-peer network that provides a strong protection of anonymity. There is no central management of the network, but data, anonymously inserted into the network by the users, is split into chunks and distributed on multiple other nodes in an encrypted form. Every node on the network contributes storage space and bandwidth for others to store and ~~retrieve~~ data.		'''Freenet (software)''' is a peer-to-peer network that provides a strong protection of anonymity. There is no central management of the network, but data, anonymously inserted into the network by the users, is split into chunks and distributed on multiple other nodes in an encrypted form. Every node on the network contributes storage space and bandwidth for others to store and fetch data.

			==File Sharing==

			All content on Freenet is published anonymously. When a user uploads files into the network, they are broken into pieces and stored on multiple other computers in the network. When these files are requested by others, they are located and put together again. Since content is relayed over multiple nodes in the network in an encrypted form, it is much more difficult to determine who inserted the content, who requested it, and where it is stored. Even the user himself does not know what is stored on his/her hard drive in the storage space allocated since the content is encrypted and distributed randomly.

	==Modes==		==Modes==
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	* Opennet		* Opennet
	A user automatically connects to strangers		user automatically connects to strangers
	* Darknet		* Darknet
	A user only connects to friends after mutual exchange of reference keys		user only connects to friends after mutual exchange of reference keys

			==Use==

			Users do not use Freenet to access regular websites on the World Wide Web, but to access so-called "freesites" which others inserted into the network.

			==Performance==

			Since content in Freenet is distributed randomly and first needs to be located on request, accessing it is necessarily slower than accessing content on the Web. The documentation claims that performance improves over time <ref>[[https://freenetproject.org/faq.html#slow]]</ref> (possibly due to caching ???).

			==References==
			{{reflist}}

	==~~File sharing~~==		==External Links==
			[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet Freenet at Wikipedia] Quite comprehensive Wikipedia entry
			[[https://freenetproject.org]] Official website of the project with download

	When a user uploads files into the network, they are broken into pieces and stored on multiple other computers in the network. When these files are downloaded by others, they are located and put together again.		[[Category:Software]]

imported>Martin: Article created

2011-01-18T11:32:05Z

Article created

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'''Freenet''' is a peer-to-peer network that provides a strong protection of anonymity. There is no central management of the network, but data, anonymously inserted into the network by the users, is split into chunks and distributed on multiple other nodes in an encrypted form. Every node on the network contributes storage space and bandwidth for others to store and retrieve data.

==Modes==

There are two possible ways to configure Freenet:

* Opennet
A user automatically connects to strangers
* Darknet
A user only connects to friends after mutual exchange of reference keys

==File sharing==

When a user uploads files into the network, they are broken into pieces and stored on multiple other computers in the network. When these files are downloaded by others, they are located and put together again.