41 lines
2.1 KiB
HTML
41 lines
2.1 KiB
HTML
{% extends "global/layout.html" %}
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{% block title %}{{ _('I2P Compared to Freenet') }}{% endblock %}
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{% block content %}
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<h2>Freenet</h2>
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<i><a href="http://freenetproject.org/">[Freenet]</a></i>
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<p>{% trans -%}
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Freenet is a fully distributed, peer to peer anonymous publishing network, offering
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secure ways to store data, as well as some approaches attempting to address the loads
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of a flash flood. While Freenet is designed as a distributed data store, people have
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built applications on top of it to do more generic anonymous communication, such as
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static websites and message boards.
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{%- endtrans %}</p>
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<p>{% trans tahoe='https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs' -%}
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Compared to I2P, Freenet offers some substantial benefits - it is a distributed data
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store, while I2P is not, allowing people to retrieve the content published by others
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even when the publisher is no longer online. In addition, it should be able to
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distribute popular data fairly efficiently. I2P itself does not and will not provide
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this functionality. On the other hand, there is overlap for users who simply want to
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communicate with each other anonymously through websites, message boards, file sharing
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programs, etc. There have also been some attempts to develop a distributed data
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store to run on top of I2P,
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(most recently a port of <a href="{{ tahoe }}">Tahoe-LAFS</a>)
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but nothing is yet ready for general use.
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{%- endtrans %}</p>
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<p>{% trans -%}
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However, even ignoring any implementations issues, there are some concerns
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about Freenet's algorithms from both a scalability and anonymity perspective, owing
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largely to Freenet's heuristic driven routing. The interactions of various techniques
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certainly may successfully deter various attacks, and perhaps some aspects of the
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routing algorithms will provide the hoped for scalability. Unfortunately, not much
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analysis of the algorithms involved has resulted in positive results, but there is still
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hope. At the very least, Freenet does provide substantial anonymity against an attacker
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who does not have the resources necessary to analyze it further.
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{%- endtrans %}</p>
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{% endblock %}
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