Protecting Free Expression Online with Freenet

نویسندگان

  • Ian Clarke
  • Scott G. Miller
  • Theodore W. Hong
  • Oskar Sandberg
  • Brandon Wiley
چکیده

These considerations were important when Ian Clarke devised Freenet. This system uses a decentralized peer-to-peer architecture in which each node provides data storage to store files to share with peers. In Freenet, each file automatically assigns itself a location-independent and globally unique identifier (GUID), a special kind of key which Freenet uses to identify the file. From (GUID) a node can estimate – but not guarantee – the file location.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • IEEE Internet Computing

دوره 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002