GNUnet 0.10.0 released

[Security] Posted Dec 28, 2013 0:31 UTC (Sat) by jake

The GNUnet secure peer-to-peer networking framework has released version 0.10.0. "This release represents a major overhaul of the cryptographic primitives used by the system. GNUnet used RSA 2048 since its inception in 2001, but as of GNUnet 0.10.0, we are "powered by Curve25519". Naturally, changing cryptographic primitives like this breaks backwards compatibility entirely. We have used this opportunity to implement protocol improvements all over the system." GNUnet provides four applications: anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing, a virtual private network (VPN) service, the GNU name system (GNS) a fully-decentralized and censorship resistant replacement for DNS, and GNUnet Conversation that allows voice calls to be made over GNUnet.

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