devilkin
10-28-2002, 21:19
Whats new in 0.5
Far too many improvements have occured between the 0.3 series and the newly stable 0.5 release. A few highlights are in order, though:
Security
Strong public-key cryptography used for inter-node communication which prevents man-in-the-middle attacks.
Node announcement protocol which eliminates the need for any central directory.
File-sizes enforced to a power-of-two to prevent traffic analysis.
Publishing
Support for splitfiles and redundant encoding (improves reachability of large files)
Enhanced Freenet Client Protocol (FCP) for application developers.
Usability
FProxy (The Freenet Gateway) beautified and improved
Node Status information readily available
Resource Utilization
Improvements made in performance, memory usage, and threading.
Tool Support
Many third party tools ready for website authoring, bulletin-board style discussions, and some near completion like Internet Streaming Radio, and more.
And perhaps most importantly, It Just Works!
http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/WebHome
Far too many improvements have occured between the 0.3 series and the newly stable 0.5 release. A few highlights are in order, though:
Security
Strong public-key cryptography used for inter-node communication which prevents man-in-the-middle attacks.
Node announcement protocol which eliminates the need for any central directory.
File-sizes enforced to a power-of-two to prevent traffic analysis.
Publishing
Support for splitfiles and redundant encoding (improves reachability of large files)
Enhanced Freenet Client Protocol (FCP) for application developers.
Usability
FProxy (The Freenet Gateway) beautified and improved
Node Status information readily available
Resource Utilization
Improvements made in performance, memory usage, and threading.
Tool Support
Many third party tools ready for website authoring, bulletin-board style discussions, and some near completion like Internet Streaming Radio, and more.
And perhaps most importantly, It Just Works!
http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/WebHome