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ANts P2P

ANts P2P is an anonymous peer-to-peer open source GPLeded application written in Java. See Anonymous P2P for more information on anonymous peer-to-peer applications.

Features

ANts P2P realizes a third generation P2P net.
It protects your privacy while you are connected and makes you not trackable,
hiding your identity (ip) and crypting everything you are sending/receiving from others.

  • Point to point encryption (AES 128 - DH 512)
  • End point, end to end, encryption (AES 128 - DH 512)
  • Multipath routing for packets
  • Preferential connections (to give the network a fast backbone)
  • Support for partial downloads
  • Autosearch sources for active and interrupted downloads.
  • ANts can find partial files through normal queries or queries by hash
  • Full text indexing and searches over full file content and full file path location
  • Non-anonymous internet relay chat, (IRC)
  • Queries are encrypted asymmetrically. This means that only the originator can read the query results. Everyone can read the query string but this asymmetric approach drastically reduces the potential of a node to do trasit query analysis.
  • A node's filesystem is protected against attacks based on random file push messages because you will accept ONLY push relative to a request you have made.
  • Anonymous instant messaging

    Possible additions

  • Friend 2 Friend support based on PGP keys (waiting for a working Bouncy Castle PGP implementation)

    Limitations

  • ANts releases are not backward compatible. Keep your node updated.

    See also

  • Anonymous P2P

    External links

  • Official ANts P2P download page
  • Sourceforge ANts P2P website
  • Sourceforge ANts P2P project summary
  • Bitzi.com BitSociety for files available on the Ants network.



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