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Freenet 1468 stable released
11 points by ArneBab on July 11, 2015 | hide | past | favorite
Freenet 1468 stable released!

db4o is gone from Fred. It is replaced with the product of toad's summer of work - a custom on-disk format that is much more robust against corruption and is more efficient in both CPU and I/O. [0] A new crypto API (unixninja92’s Google Summer of Code) is available for plugins to easily perform cryptographic operations within Freenet. This new API has been designed to make it as simple as possible to do the “right” thing cryptographically and to follow current best security practices. See freenet.crypt.EncryptedRandomAccessBuffer and freenet.crypt.MessageAuthCode for details.

Full Release notes: https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/2015-July/038121.html

Install: https://freenetproject.org

For those who haven’t been following it since 1999: Freenet is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites" (web sites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship. Freenet is decentralised to make it less vulnerable to attack, and if used in "darknet" mode, where users only connect to their friends, is very difficult to detect. — https://freenetproject.org/whatis.html



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