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Encyclopedia > ANts P2P
ANts P2P
Developer: Gwren
Latest release: v1.5.8 beta Protocol 0.9.5 / June 11, 2007
OS: Cross-platform
Genre: File sharing, Anonymous peer to peer
License: GPL
Website: antsp2p.sourceforge.net

ANts P2P is an anonymous peer-to-peer open source file sharing software written in Java. The project was launched in 2004, and the code is licensed under the GPL. Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... A software release is the distribution, whether public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product. ... June 11 is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function, type, or field of use. ... File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ... An anonymous P2P computer network is a particular type of peer-to-peer network in which the users and their nodes are pseudonymous by default. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a... An anonymous P2P computer network is a particular type of peer-to-peer network in which the users and their nodes are pseudonymous by default. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ... Java is a programming language originally developed by Sun Microsystems and released in 1995. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ...

Contents

Features

ANts P2P encrypts all traffic 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: This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

  • 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.
  • Support for the eDonkey link format.
  • 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 reduces the potential of a node to do transit query analysis.

ANts P2P also allows users to offer web servers anonymously; these servers are only reachable from within the ANts P2P network. ANts P2P is however not an outproxy network which lets users reach services on the conventional internet; for this, an outproxy service such as Tor can be used separately. “Cipher” redirects here. ... Diffie-Hellman key exchange is a cryptographic protocol which allows two parties to agree on a secret key over an insecure communication channel. ... Diffie-Hellman key exchange is a cryptographic protocol which allows two parties to agree on a secret key over an insecure communication channel. ... A backbone network is the part of a hierarchical network that occupies the top level of that hierarchy: it connects to nothing but itself, or nodes at lower levels in the hierarchy. ... This article is about the computer terms. ... eDonkey may refer to: eDonkey network / eDonkey2000 network - popular file sharing network used by millions of people. ... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. ... In cryptography, an asymmetric key algorithm uses a pair of cryptographic keys to encrypt and decrypt. ... The inside/front of a Dell PowerEdge web server The term Web server can mean one of two things: A computer that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as Web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are Web... Tor (The Onion Router) is a free software implementation of second-generation onion routing — a system enabling its users to communicate anonymously on the Internet. ...


Security

The data transfers run over indirect connections: Senders and receivers of a file do not hold a direct connection with each other, but the connection cascades over several nodes, so that neither party can trivially determine the other's identity.


The traffic between nodes is encrypted with AES, which prevents sniffing both from outsiders and from transit nodes. The encryption key exchange applies Diffie-Hellman to prevent man in the middle attacks. In cryptography, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known as Rijndael, is a block cipher adopted as an encryption standard by the U.S. government. ... Diffie-Hellman key exchange is a cryptographic protocol which allows two parties to agree on a secret key over an insecure communication channel. ... In cryptography, a man in the middle attack (MITM) is an attack in which an attacker is able to read, insert and modify at will, messages between two parties without either party knowing that the link between them has been compromised. ...


See also

An anonymous P2P computer network is a particular type of peer-to-peer network in which the users and their nodes are pseudonymous by default. ... Comparison of BitTorrent software Comparison of eDonkey software Comparison of Gnutella software Comparison of G2 software Anonymous peer-to-peer Categories: | ... The MUTE Network (or MUTE-net) is a peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend file sharing network developed with anonymity in mind. ... Phex is a peer-to-peer file sharing client for the Gnutella network. ... RShare 0. ...

External links

  • Sourceforge ANts P2P website
  • ANts P2P project summary on SourceForge
  • Sourceforge project side
  • operating instructions (German)
  • current (v. 1.5.7/0.9.4) English ANts Guide
  • ANts P2P2P: A new Approach to file sharing - Slyck news, Septembers 13, 2004. Detailed view of some technical and legal aspects of ANts P2P


 
 

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