Hi all, Hum, this is awkward. I have followed the evolution of Freenet in the past and just received the Freenet 0.7 alpha announcement mail.
Since the beginning of last year I have been working on a project (Galet) which looks *very* similar to Freenet 0.7. From the web page (http://galet.sourceforge.net) : "Galet is a peer-to-peer application, which primarily aims to provide easy to setup secure communication channels between the computers of people who know and trust each other. Its secondary goal is to create a public network based on these channels. No direct connection occur between two nodes that has not been explicitly accepted by the users of theses nodes. This makes the network very difficult to censor, as an attacker's direct access to the network is limited." Some details: Galet is already pretty stable and features messaging, file-sharing & tunneling (it can be used as VPN). It is written in C++/Qt and is available on Unix & Windows. It also has a nice GUI and a very cute first time utilisation wizard. It is GPLed. It seems we have similar goals and are doing pretty much the same thing. In that case, would there be any way we could cooperate (fusion / interoperability / sharing solutions for similar problems) ? I just looked on the Freenet web site and failed to find any technical documentation on 0.7. The Galet web site is similar in that aspect, but I am currently working on a paper detailing the cryptographic protocols used. Would that be of any interest ? Cheers, Jean PS: I have to admit that the name "Freenet" sounds *way* cooler than "Galet", though :-)
