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The Freenet REference Daemon, the core implementation of the Freenet peer-to-peer network, providing a distributed, encrypted, and decentralized datastore for censorship-resistant communication.

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Project Overview

Freenet is a platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing. It is peer-to-peer software that provides a distributed, encrypted, decentralized datastore. Websites and applications providing things like forums and chat are built on top of it. FRED stands for Freenet REference Daemon.

Key Features

  • Distributed, encrypted, and decentralized datastore
  • Censorship-resistant communication and publishing platform
  • Supports building websites, forums, chat, and other applications on top

Target Audience

  • Users concerned with internet freedom and censorship-resistant technologies
  • Developers and researchers interested in distributed and peer-to-peer technologies

Quick Start

  1. Build with the Gradle Wrapper: ./gradlew jar (POSIX / Windows PowerShell) or gradlew jar (Windows cmd)
  2. Can also build with Ant
  3. Run tests: ./gradlew --parallel test

Core Advantages

  • Decentralized architecture with no single point of failure
  • Encrypted for enhanced privacy and security
  • Censorship-resistant for freedom of expression

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