Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System
Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 2001
Ian Clarke, Oskar J. Sandberg, Brandon Wiley, Theodore W. Hong
Citations272
SJR quartileQ2
SJR score0.35
SNIP0.55
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
Study Snapshot
ObjectiveStudy objective
MethodsResearch methodology
PopulationPopulation studied
Sample sizeSample sizes
OutcomesStudy outcomes here
ResultsStudy results comes here
LimitationsResearch study limitations comes here
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
TL;DR
Freenet is described, an adaptive peer-to-peer network application that permits the publication, replication, and retrieval of data while protecting the anonymity of both authors and readers.
Abstract
Abstract. We describe Freenet, an adaptive peer-to-peer network application that permits the publication, replication, and retrieval of data while protecting the anonymity of both authors and readers. Freenet operates as a network of identical nodes that collectively pool their storage space to store data files and cooperate to route requests to the most likely physical location of data. No broadcast search or centralized location index is employed. Files are referred to in a location-independent manner, and are dynamically replicated in locations near requestors and deleted from locations where there is no interest. It is infeasible to discover the true origin or destination of a file passing through the network, and difficult for a node operator to determine or be held responsible for the actual physical contents of her own node. 1
Keywords
Computer Science
NatureCollective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks
43,160 Citations1998Duncan J. Watts, Steven H. Strogatz
Simple models of networks that can be tuned through this middle ground: regular networks ‘rewired’ to introduce increasing amounts of disorder are explored, finding that these systems can be highly clustered, like regular lattices, yet have small characteristic path lengths, like random graphs.
NatureError and attack tolerance of complex networks
7,218 Citations2000Réka Albert, Hawoong Jeong +1 more
It is found that scale-free networks, which include the World-Wide Web, the Internet, social networks and cells, display an unexpected degree of robustness, the ability of their nodes to communicate being unaffected even by unrealistically high failure rates.
Communications of the ACMUntraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms
4,260 Citations1981David Chaum
A technique based on public key cryptography is presented that allows an electronic mail system to hide who a participant communicates with as well as the content of the communication - in spite of an unsecured underlying telecommunication system.
Modern Operating Systems
1,923 Citations1992Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Modern Operating Systems gives a solid conceptual overview of operating system design, including detailed case studies of Unix/Linux and Windows 2000, and makes frequent references to the Frederick Brooks classic The Mythical Man month for wisdom on managing large, complex software development projects.
Journal of the ACMPrivate information retrieval
1,626 Citations1998Benny Chor, Eyal Kushilevitz +2 more
NatureGrowth dynamics of the World-Wide Web
865 Citations1999Bernardo A. Huberman, Lada A. Adamic
It is found that web pages are distributed among sites according to a universal power law: many sites have only a few pages, whereas very few sites have hundreds of thousands of pages.
Communications of the ACMOnion routing
679 Citations1999David M. Goldschlag, Michael Reed +1 more
Onion Routing operates by dynamically building anonymous connections within a network of real-time Chaum Onion Routing, which provides anonymous connections that are strongly resistant to both eavesdropping and traffic analysis.
Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)Onion Routing for Anonymous and Private Internet Connections
415 Citations1999David M. Goldschlag, Michael Reed +1 more
In this article, the prototype network is processing more than 1 million Web connections per month from more than six thousand IP addresses in twenty countries and in all six main top level domains.
Lecture notes in computer scienceWeb MIXes: A System for Anonymous and Unobservable Internet Access
377 Citations2001Oliver Berthold, Hannes Federrath +1 more
A MIX-based system for anonymous and unobservable real-time Internet access that prevents traffic analysis as well as flooding attacks and provides an interface to inform anonymous users about their level of anonymity and unob observability.
Lecture notes in computer scienceThe Free Haven Project: Distributed Anonymous Storage Service
334 Citations2001Roger Dingledine, Michael J. Freedman +1 more
A design for a system of anonymous storage which resists the attempts of powerful adversaries to find or destroy any stored data is presented, and a way to classify anonymous systems based on the kinds of anonymity provided is suggested.
Communications of the ACMAnonymous Web transactions with Crowds
288 Citations1999Michael K. Reiter, Aviel D. Rubin
The thesis is Web users should have the ability to limit what information is revealed about them and to whom it is revealed.
Publius: a robust, tamper-evident, censorship-resistant web publishing system
282 Citations2000Marc Waldman, Aviel D. Rubin +1 more
This work describes a system that has the property that it is very difficult for any adversary to censor or modify the content, and the identity of the publisher is protected once the content is posted.
A prototype implementation of archival Intermemory
133 Citations1999Yuan Chen, Jan Edler +4 more
A prototype implementation of Intermemory is described, including an overall system architecture and implementations of key system components, that tolerates up to 17 simultaneous node failures, and includes a Web gateway for browser-based access to data.
First MondayTAZ servers and the rewebber network: Enabling anonymous publishing on the world wide web
56 Citations1998Ian Goldberg, David Wagner
The problem of anonymous publication on the WWW is examined, a design suitable for practical deployment is proposed, and the implementation is described.