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#Freenet / #Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1506 is now available:

- fix vulnerability,
- update plugins,
- optimize routing, and
- upkeep

https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-hyphanet-075-build-1504-1505-1506-fix-vulnerability-optimize-routing-cleanups-and-upkeep.html

Many thanks to all the contributors and testers who made this release possible!

#decentralization #p2p #privacy #FreeSoftware #censorship

Description from the Website:

Reclaim Your Privacy!

Hyphanet makes it easy to publish and follow what others publish with strong privacy protections.

Plugins built on its decentralized data store make it very easy to host your own website and provide microblogging and forums, media sharing from files to video-on-demand and decentralized version tracking, blogging and spam resistance without central authority.

For an easy start you can join the global Opennet. For maximum privacy, connect to your friends and build a friend-to-friend network independent of and invisible to any centralized server. To access the global network, you either need some friends who also connect to opennet, or use the Shoeshop plugin to build a sneakernet that can even bridge separate friend-to-friend networks when your regional internet itself gets severed from the global information network.

Lots of additional information about Hyphanet and its history is available on Wikipedia.

Code Signing Policy

A jumping white rabbit with blue background, below it the name Hyphanet.

Le concept de réseaux décentralisé par relais comme #nostr en opposition aux systèmes habituels centralisé me fait imaginer un truc, quand on mélange ca a des projets comme #ipfs #onionshare voir meme #hyphanet ( ex #freenet ) : (1/4)

The #Arch #Linux #AUR package of #Freenet #Hyphanet is updated, too:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hyphanet

❤️ 🐇

The insert of #Freenet / #Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1505 to the update key has started.

Your node should update automatically, if you have auto-update enabled.

For info, either read the release notes linked by the updater or check the release on Github:
https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/releases/tag/build01505

This update is fix for a critical vulnerability. Please update -- if you can’t, disable javascript in the node web interface to mitigate the vulnerability.

@pfr
Didn't it become #hyphanet?

If you don’t want your communication to be traced, stored in a database, and analyzed to find out whether you may protest, use a pseudonym that can’t be traced back to you.

And only tell close friends that this is you.

For example use #Sone via #Freenet / #Hyphanet.

Start with https://www.hyphanet.org

Screenshot of the Sone website in Hyphanet.

Text:

Sone - The Social Network Plugin for Freenet
What Is It?

Sone is a plugin for your Freenet node that gives you the possibility to communicate with many other people. It has been called “Twitter/Facebook for Freenet,” but true to Freenet’s nature it’s fully decentralized and uncensorable. It also doesn’t share your contacts with anyone, doesn’t record audio or video from your computer, and generally tries to play nice with your privacy (i.e. sharing anything is optional).

Sone is a “micro-blogging platform,” i.e. it’s targeted at short texts, maybe containig a link or two. The created post is then also used to center the discussion around it, replies are shown directly below the post, allowing to follow a discussion quickly and painlessly.

This is what it looks like for me:

The insert of #Freenet / #Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1504 to the update key starts now.

Your node should update automatically, if you have auto-update enabled.

For info, either read the release notes linked by the updater or check the release on Github:
https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/releases/tag/build01504

To watch it spread, use the release watcher page: USK@xg4EAt59dkGkGdwiEPAPDbdoc36e3QZhtThbpA~FjrE,nPtfp976OP3MwMKJB-UdSdn83vyZ6PLsE5rDrz4GQEo,AQACAAE/watch-1504/-4/

Thank you for using Hyphanet!

https://www.hyphanet.org

Test release for #Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1504.

Please help check it by going into Configuration, Auto Update, switching to advanced mode and setting "Where should #Freenet look for updates?" to:

USK@wytBz~rduWSo9-MmVW4AVqY3ESebPPCP9vC-eSxe-vg,mZqWi0sHmhn5kt0idu-~K4pk~~8eNXxMeYen73FOfA8,AQACAAE/jar/1503

Additional info from:
http://localhost:8888/USK@sUm3oJISSEU4pl2Is9qa1eRoCLyz6r2LPkEqlXc3~oc,yBEbf-IJrcB8Pe~gAd53DEEHgbugUkFSHtzzLqnYlbs,AQACAAE/random_babcom/591/#Testreleasefor0751504isinserting

@dthompson Maybe I should also create a video of FMS on #Freenet / #Hyphanet …
It’s been happily jugging along for 20 years now:

https://freesocial.draketo.de/fms_en.html
via https://www.hyphanet.org

… but it’s definitely not for kids.

Which gets to the actually hard requirements: discord is used by gamers. A replacement needs actually working moderation that keeps communication safe(-r than discord today). In groups.

And that’s a hard problem.

FMS message list in the Freenet board:

A table with message, sender, replies, and last post (some parts overpainted with black)

Message in FMS:

Breaking an Internet Blockade: what we can, what would help

Hyphanet already offers tools to get through an internet blockade, but as usual not the most convenient ones.

# What we can

The simple yet effective blockade breaker we already have:

## Provide media

- Upload files into your hyphanet node, even if it has no connections
- Link them from a known Sharesite
- Export the Sharesite as fblob with Shoeshop: Shoeshop/3/
- Export all inserted files as fblobs with Shoeshop
- Copy the fblobs on SD cards and bring those in circulation; maybe via dead drops

## Circulate media and get information within the blockade

- Insert the fblobs from SD cards into your Hyphanet node, even if it has no connections
- Read your updated bookmarks: only their actual creators can update them
- Export fblobs from your updated bookmarks and add them to the SD card or create an SD card with only fblobs of your updated bookmarks (filter out stuff you don’t follow)
- copy the data to more SD cards
- Pass on the SD card(-s) to people outside the blockade; maybe via a dead drop.

## Get news outside the blockade

- Insert the fblobs from an SD card into a Hyphanet node that’s connected to opennet or to a regional darknet

## Get news inside the blockade

- Export your updated bookmarks and the files they link to an SD card
- Get that SD card into the blockade.

(note: don’t use USB sticks: they can hack your system)

Quick look back on 2025: #Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1504 isn’t released yet, but many improvements are merged already:
https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/blob/next/NEWS.md

Looking forward to release them soon!

In the meantime: why not take two times 15 minutes between the years to install and try out Hyphanet?

https://www.hyphanet.org/

Spin it up, install the Sone plugin, add a pseudonym, then take a break and give it an hour in the background while Sone fetches messages from other pseudonyms.

#decentralization #p2p #privacy

next:

- Update the plugin WebOfTrust to 0.4.5 build 21 with dead seed IDs replaced by active ones. Thanks to xor!
- Update the plugin JSTUN to version 1.5 (6) with dead JSTUN servers replaced. Thanks to Bombe!
- Update MIME types, thanks to torusrxxx
- Cleanup PeerManager and version transition, thanks to torusrxxx
- Continue securely deleting the file if IOException occurred and add logging, thanks to torusrxxx
- Link bugs via bugs.hyphanet.org, replace dead URIs, Suggest IRC username SecRabbit in SECURITY.md, replace mailing lists reference by FMS
- remove files used in tests, thanks to Bombe
- CONTRIBUTING: Add "no spurious changes" note
- Preserve the order of peers when updating handshake IPs
- 🚸 Build source JAR in a more reproducible way, thanks to Bombe
- show radiobuttons on sky dark static theme for WoT
update translations from transifex, fix transifex config, remove l10n for removed feature. Thanks to Bombe!
- update github actions/checkout to v5, thanks to qupo1
- improve PNG filter: support HDR chunks, thanks to Bombe and torusrxxx
- Simplify MultiHash{Input,Output}Stream, thanks to bertm
- BlockTransmitter: delay BlockSenderJob asynchronously on the Ticker, thanks to bertm
- reduce synchronization in MersenneTwister for efficiency, thanks to bertm
- bump Gradle to 8.14.3, thanks to qupo1
- Update debian package to 1503, thanks to qupo1
- speed up and fix RunningAverage, thanks to bertm

@mike805
BitTorrent wouldn't work as a censorship circumvention technique in China. The government would just check the DHT for downloaders of banned torrents and go after them.
However, the creater of #Freenet (not #Hyphanet) says that anonymity layers will be possible; they're just not on by default.
@freezenet

Anyone familiar with #hyphanet, aka #freenet?
I used it ages ago and recently discovered that it still exists (but under a new name).I tried to get it running, but I just can't figure out how to get it to work now.

I tried the container image first, but the ports kept changing on every restart, making it impossible to publish/forward the right ones. How the heck is that supposed to work?

I would prefer to stick to the container image, but I did also try the native Debian package. I couldn't seem to convince it to allow me to connect remotely, however, despite changing allowed hosts and bindings.

The KeepAlive plugin has a limit how many files it can keep alive: it can keep files alive as long as their rate of dropping out does not exceed your upload capacity.

As rule of thumb: big files drop out after two weeks (in that time half their data is gone), so you can at most keep a number of files alive whose total size is lower than your upload per month. With 35 peers I can upload 1 GiB per day, so my limit for KeepAlive is 30 GiB.

https://www.hyphanet.org

#hyphanet #decentralization #p2p

@theradiocc Etwas spät dran, aber hier gibt es die letzte LinuxLounge jetzt auch dezentral in #Freenet / #Hyphanet (ab 17:21):

http://127.0.0.1:8888/USK@s371qMmwS~HVL9bgib1GRWcwqel9hwGnZ~6gWrICz8s,rI0VLE8hMmBHF~kj5q1VW0yyf9GkauliZbvf7wagcRg,AQACAAE/theradiocc/1
(geht seit 0.7.5 build 1503 mit nur einem einzelnen Knoten fast-live (statt wie vorher mit 5))

Zum Anhören braucht ihr einen laufenden Hyphanet-Knoten.
⇒ https://www.hyphanet.org

If you want to play with #Rust and #Hyphanet / #Freenet and pretty intersting encryption, have a look at
https://github.com/hyphanet/mycelink_lib

“Dentro de la red Hyphanet,
Bookmarks funciona como un índice secreto de freesites, foros y archivos cifrados. Permite guardar enlaces a contenido oculto accesible solo dentro de la red, organizando la exploración y descubriendo rincones desconocidos. Es como un diario de navegación en un mundo descentralizado y resistente a la censura, donde cada enlace es una puerta a información que no verías en la web común.”
#Hyphanet #RedOculta #Webs

@Bombe Haben wir schon einmal über das #Matrix #Protokoll kommuniziert?
Ich habe ein Problem mit dem #Hyphanet (ehemals #Freenet) #Plugin #Sone.

Dieses freche Ding behauptet einfach, ich hätte keine #WebOfTrust Identität.
So ein Quatsch, denn ich habe mehrere & kann mich erfolgreich mit jeder anmelden.

my home server https://aus.social has been inaccessible and returned 502 error for whole evening \ many hours.
I have not seen any 24h upfront notifications about scheduled maintenance. I have not seen a "server on maintenance" page. This left me wonder.
No one advertised here an "X/twitter or other status/downtime/uptime page of a server" .
There is no https://status.aus.social or aus.social/status
Whole situation has been made weirder by https://isup.me which checks for downtime, and "thinks" 502 is normal return code page, marks site as working fine.
So, what exactly happened & what was that maintenance, in technical details?
Is aus.social hosted on single server hardware/vps, because if there was a second server for load balancing - there probably wouldn't be such issue.
Should we expect this situation to repeat?
What is recomended official status page\downtime checker? (that is not hosted on this server and will be accessible in case of downtime)
There is no known contact form with Admin, like IRC\XMPP, outside of Fediverse.
Is server maintained by single person or team or public organisation ?
Also, if it's single person, WHO IS exactly the Admin ?
because this server is advertised and suggested as trusted and reliable on joinmastodon.org , that supposed to communicate to users upfront on any issues.
Also, if you are not on aus.social, but anywhere on fediverse, this is example of how this #fediverse #activitypub is still centralized around single points of failures like DNS, central servers. So my few suggestions to you as user (outside of this issue): Bring your own Server. #Selfhost. You can selfhost static pages for free with #indieweb & activitypub support. Add #hyphanet #scuttlebutt #zeronet keyoxide keybase.io PGP GPG blockchains etherium #p2p #ipfs OrbitDB tox bitmessage jami briar Namecoin http://pubky.tech http://keychat.io to your stack.

@derpostillon Vielleicht wird es Zeit für andere Arten der Vorbereitung. Print ist schon gut, um in Deutschen Städten unter der Hand weitergegeben zu werden, aber wie lange können Leute in den USA eure Online-Ausgabe noch lesen?

Ich lass das mal hier:
https://www.hyphanet.org

#Freenet #Hyphanet #press #freedom #censorship #resistance #decentralized #decentralization #p2p