Tor and Freenet have different goals. Personally I would not be unduly paranoid about Tor, as it is an open source project with a massive amount of publicity and people watching it.
Now, with regards Freenet: - It is 99.9% Java; the only non-java code is third-party-derived optimizations. - Email is implemented, but a bit buggy. trunk/apps/Freemail (written in python). Volunteers to fix this (it presently uses 100% CPU for some reason), would be appreciated. Most people on Freenet use pm4pigs and Frost, which provide semi-mail-like functionality, with silly GUIs. Personally I prefer email, but I won't use freemail as long as it hogs the CPU. - Fproxy works through HTTP; essentially you can upload static sites. Suggest you install Freenet and play with it a bit; you'll want Frost (http://jtcfrost.sf.net/) in addition to the main Fred code. - At present freenet supports insertion and retrieval of data. All else is built upon these two functions. In 0.8, we will add other functionality such as subscribable broadcast streams. - If you want to build the current stable build from source, make a directory, cd into it, check out branches/legacy/stable and trunk/contrib . If you then cd into stable, and do ant distclean && ant dist, then it will build everything (apart from the binaries in contrib) from source. You might have to rename contrib to Contrib. - I strongly recommend you get the stable branch, and get seednodes from http://downloads.freenetproject.org , and get a node running (start-freenet.sh). This will give you a good idea of what Freenet can do at present. - If you want to get involved in the 0.7 effort, please contact me, and join #freenet-alphatest on irc.freenode.net; currently we have a very early pre-alpha. The source is in trunk/freenet/ . - Please have a look at the presentation linked from the front page of the website... On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:35:36AM -0700, Joe Graham wrote: > Well the big showstopper wrt contributing for me is that Tor is a > Darpa sponsored project. > One of the big technical issues for me with Tor is that you can > probably always expect the encryption to be something the U.S. > controls at some level. Although this is not much of an issue right > now, it could be later and then it would be to late. Although I can > expect great things from Tor, I feel that it is not for "me" persay. > My background is primarily in Java, ST, and some C++ development. I > would really like to contribute to this fantastic project as I feel > this technology will be key to shaping the future of the internet. I > would also like to know if one of the points on the roadmap for this > project include implementing things like email and URLs for http-ish > services. I am very excited to get in on the ground floor as well. > Sorry if this post does not comply with the topic. Thank you very > much for all the great information. My next step will be to pull the > trunk from subversion and grok the source. > > Best Regards, > Joe Graham > josgraha [at] gmail [dot] com -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20051207/9b6e0496/attachment.pgp>
