The MUTE Network (or MUTE-net) is a peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend file sharing network developed with anonymity in mind. The MUTE client is open source software released under the Public domain and includes support for the Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows computer operating systems. For other uses, see Software developer (disambiguation). ... Jason Rohrer is the author of konspire2b, a pseudononymous channel-based file-distribution system token word, a Xanadu-style text editing system tangle, a proxy server which tries to find relationships between websites a user visits External links Home page Categories: People stubs ... Code complete redirects here. ... is the 113th day of the year (114th 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 in the 21st century. ... An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... 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 are anonymous or 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 public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... It has been suggested that Friend-to-friend with third party storage be merged into this article or section. ... File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ... 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. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Windows redirects here. ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ...

Unlike the relatively popular Freenet anonymous P2P network, Mute's search functionality is similar to classical peer-to-peer applications. For other uses, see Freenet (disambiguation) Freenet is a decentralized censorship-resistant peer-to-peer distributed data store aiming to provide electronic freedom of speech through strong anonymity. ... An anonymous P2P computer network is a particular type of peer-to-peer network in which the users are anonymous or pseudonymous by default. ...

History of MUTE

MUTE was developed by Jason Rohrer using a routing algorithm based on ant colony optimization. Jason Rohrer is the author of konspire2b, a pseudononymous channel-based file-distribution system token word, a Xanadu-style text editing system tangle, a proxy server which tries to find relationships between websites a user visits External links Home page Categories: People stubs ... Flowcharts are often used to graphically represent algorithms. ... The ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO), introduced by Marco Dorigo [Dor92,DoSt04], is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems which can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs. ...

See also

• File sharing
• Anonymous P2P
• ANts P2P
• RShare

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External links

• Official website
• MUTE SourceForge website
• MUTE wiki and FAQs
• MUTE forums
• MUTE mailing list
• How the MUTE Anonymous P2P network works
• KOMMUTE - A file sharing client that uses the MUTE network