GNUnet helps building a new Internet
GNUnet is a network protocol stack for building secure, distributed, and
privacy-preserving applications.
With strong roots in academic research, our goal is to replace the old insecure
Internet protocol stack.
GNUnet provides privacy-by design
It provides improving addressing, routing, naming and content distribution in a
technically robust manner - as opposed to ad-hoc designs in place today.
Freedoms are not respected
Today, monitoring increasingly centralized infrastructure, proprietary
implementations, traffic shapers and firewalls restrict all of the essential
freedoms to various degrees.
GNUnet supports a free and open society
GNUnet is a self-organizing network and it is free software as in freedom. GNUnet puts you in control of your data. You
determine which data to share with whom, and you're not pressured to accept compromises. It gives users freedoms to
securely access information ("run" the network), to study all aspects of the network's operation
("access the code"), to distribute information ("copy"), as well as the freedom to deploy new
applications ("modify").
The state of the art is inefficient
The ongoing hype around distributed ledgers and blockchains is detrimental to
the health of our planet.
Sustainability
GNUnet does not require a decentralized, public ledger. This eliminates the
need for wasteful, continuous consensus mechanisms, which do not scale and are
ecologically unsustainable. GNUnet and its applications employ decentralization
only where it provides the most value and use more efficient technology stacks
where needed.
Decentralization is the key, but hard
Instead of sharing common components and tools for building P2P systems, every
P2P project seems to re-invent the wheel. This heightens the effort and
increases the potential number of vulnerabilities.
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