ANts P2P
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ANts P2P is an anonymous peer-to-peer open source GPL-licensed application written in Java.
Features
ANts P2P encrypts all traffic being sent or received from others and proxies traffic between participants in the network to make it harder to determine the originating IP addresses. Some of its features include:
- Automatic update of the software.
- Point to point encryption (AES 128 - DH 512).
- 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.
- Finding parts of 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.
- 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 transit query analysis.
Possible additions
- Friend-to-friend support based on PGP keys (waiting for a working Bouncy Castle PGP implementation).
See also
- Anonymous P2P
- Comparison of file sharing applications
- MUTE (similar P2P project)
External links
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