Christian Grothoff | 28 Feb 2012 16:08

GNUnet 0.9.2 released

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.9.2. This release 
brings a major rewrite of the VPN subsystem, resulting in significant 
performance and stability improvements. The release also includes a new 
linear programming... based automatic transport selection mechanism. The 
release fixes various bugs and brings various API extensions and other 
minor improvements. Except for the VPN subsystem, this release is 
protocol-compatible with GNUnet 0.9.1.

About GNUnet
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GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking. GNUnet's 
primary design goals are to protect the privacy of its users and to 
guard itself against attacks or abuse. At this point, GNUnet offers two 
primary applications on top of the framework:

The file-sharing service allows anonymous censorship-resistant 
file-sharing. Files, searches and search results are encrypted to make 
it hard to control, track or censor users. GNUnet's anonymity protocol 
(gap) is designed to make it difficult to link users to their 
file-sharing activities. Users can also individually trade-off between 
performance and anonymity. Despite providing anonymity, GNUnet's 
excess-based economy rewards contributing users with better performance.

The VPN service allows offering of hidden services within GNUnet (using 
a .gnunet TLD) and can be used to tunnel IPv4 and IPv6 traffic over the 
P2P network. The VPN can also be used for IP protocol translation 
(6-to-4, 4-to-6) and it is possible to tunnel IP traffic over GNUnet 
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Gmane