GNUnet 0.16 - Hackdot

Re:GNUnet 0.16 by usgroup on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @08:56AM (#30514144)

I'd be grateful if someone could say a bit about why GNUnet is interesting. I looked at it some 4-5 years ago for some P2P work, and concluded at the time that it was entirely unsable. Has much changed?

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Re:GNUnet 0.16 by JasonFruit on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @10:03AM (#30514994)

I've been revisiting this page hoping someone will answer your question, and I worry that it's significant that nobody has.

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Re:GNUnet 0.16 by goosedragons on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @10:21AM (#30515212)

Me too. When I think Web 3 as being distributed this is the kind of thing I imagine. Not crypto. :(

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Re:GNUnet 0.16 by camgunz on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @11:27AM (#30516169)

To handwave tremendously, it's another private internet implementation a la Tor or Freenet. They have a useful Applications [0] page.

[0]: https://www.gnunet.org/en/applications.html

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Re:GNUnet 0.16 by rolandog on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @05:55PM (#30521183)

From the FAQ [0]:

> For users, GNUnet offers anonymous and non-anonymous file-sharing, a fully decentralized and censorship-resistant replacement for DNS and a mechanism for IPv4-IPv6 protocol translation and tunneling (NAT-PT with DNS-ALG).

[0]: https://www.gnunet.org/en/faq.html

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Re:GNUnet 0.16 by mlatu on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @10:38AM (#30515424)

README.1ST of 0.16 tarball:

> WARNING!

> =======

> The following is a list of issues with GNUnet 0.11.0 that will need

> 0.11.0

probably a remnant... but who knows?

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