Cool. Do you expect Galet to scale? Do you have anything in the way of routing algorithms or do you rely on broadcast search? We could really do with some local and semi-local stuff e.g. instant messaging (as an extra incentive for people to add their friends, for example). How do you do tunnelling? How do you do search?
The big thing we have is the routing algorithm IMHO. Maybe our architectures are complementary. Oh and Freenet is in Java, and always will be in Java, at least until 1.0. :| (the language is fine, it's the runtime that's such as *******). Swing or SWT aren't that far from QT, but anyway, client apps can be in any language... What core stuff do you think we are missing? Have you read the papers on our routing algorithm? On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:35:48AM +0200, Jean Krohn wrote: > Hi all, > > Hum, this is awkward. I have followed the evolution of Freenet in the past > and > just received the Freenet 0.7 alpha announcement mail. > > Since the beginning of last year I have been working on a project (Galet) > which looks *very* similar to Freenet 0.7. From the web page > (http://galet.sourceforge.net) : > > "Galet is a peer-to-peer application, which primarily aims to provide easy to > setup secure communication channels between the computers of people who know > and trust each other. Its secondary goal is to create a public network based > on these channels. No direct connection occur between two nodes that has not > been explicitly accepted by the users of theses nodes. This makes the network > very difficult to censor, as an attacker's direct access to the network is > limited." > > Some details: Galet is already pretty stable and features messaging, > file-sharing & tunneling (it can be used as VPN). It is written in C++/Qt and > is available on Unix & Windows. It also has a nice GUI and a very cute first > time utilisation wizard. It is GPLed. > > It seems we have similar goals and are doing pretty much the same thing. > In that case, would there be any way we could cooperate (fusion / > interoperability / sharing solutions for similar problems) ? > > I just looked on the Freenet web site and failed to find any technical > documentation on 0.7. The Galet web site is similar in that aspect, but I am > currently working on a paper detailing the cryptographic protocols used. > Would that be of any interest ? > > Cheers, > > Jean > > PS: I have to admit that the name "Freenet" sounds *way* cooler than "Galet", > though :-) -- 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/20060404/ed4df2e4/attachment.pgp>
