Darknets

Status

• Research

Roles

• Transport
  • Tor
  • OpenVPN
• Storage
  • Freenet
  • GNUNet
  • WASTE
• Other
  • Alliance

Things mentioned above

Tor

• I've only connected to the public network
• (-) Requires a Directory Server (or 3) to store info about possible nodes for connection
• (+) Client-Server to find nodes, then Peer-2-Peer to connect to nodes
• Allows local as well as offsite access
• Provides bandwidth throttling
• Provides application level port/ip access control

OpenVPN

• I've setup and maintain 2 different servers, (home and work)
• (-) Client-Server Model
• Uses a tunX interface, easy to firewall, throttle, etc

FreeNET

• I have built a network with this.
• (+) Completely decentralized
• (-) No search feature, you have to acquire hashes
• Internal message board feature

GNUNet

• I've connected to the main network

WASTE

• I've yet to get working in linux