This is a list of "darknets," or anonymity networks, wireless mesh networks, and P2P networks that we currently know of (and where to download the software from). If you have knowledge of others, please comment on report section or go for a pull request.
Solid Solid was created by the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Its mission is to reshape the web as we know it. Solid will foster a new breed of applications with capabilities above and beyond anything that exists today.
Tor (The Onion Router) is a well known anonymity network that disguises your identity by routing your web traffic through a worldwide series of relays and nodes. It also gives you the ability to host "Tor hidden services" built on top of the network, known as ".onion sites."
I2P is an anonymous overlay network - a network within a network. It is intended to protect communication from dragnet surveillance and monitoring by third parties such as ISPs. I2P is used by many people who care about their privacy: activists, oppressed people, journalists and whistleblowers, as well as the average person. No network can be "perfectly anonymous". The continued goal of I2P is to make attacks more and more difficult to mount. Its anonymity will get stronger as the size of the network increases and with ongoing academic review. I2P is available on desktops, embedded systems (like the Raspberry Pi) and Android phones. Help spread the word!
Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing. Freenet Features Browse websites, post on forums, and publish files within Freenet with strong privacy protections.
ZeroNet Open, free and uncensorable websites, using Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent network
GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet.
dn42 is a big dynamic VPN, which employs Internet technologies (BGP, whois database, DNS, etc). Participants connect to each other using network tunnels (GRE, OpenVPN, Tinc, IPsec) and exchange routes thanks to the Border Gateway Protocol. Network addresses are assigned in the 172.20.0.0/14 range and private AS numbers are used (see registry) as well as IPv6 addresses from the ULA-Range (fd00::/8) - see FAQ.
A number of services are provided on the network: see internal (only available from within dn42). Also, dn42 is interconnected with other networks, such as ChaosVPN or some Freifunk networks.
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Riffle It is just not any network; it is an anonymity network whose prototype has been developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). It is promised to be both bandwidth and computation efficient which will allow clients from low bandwidth to connect and will allow servers to serve more clients.
Marabunta It is a P2P platform for information exchanging among nodes in an anonymous way based on several communication algorithms called "Order and Chaos" which can be found in massive social organizations such as ant colonys.
Cryptohippie team has been protecting online lives for more than a decade. We provide the best protection available and combine it with the best customer service in the business.
https://github.com/ssbc [there is no formal info found!]
B.A.T.M.A.N. (Better Approach to Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking) is a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. This is the main development website, we have source code, binary packages, documentation and further information available on the official site.
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https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
Digitata is a digital tree, a sapling to give technology to children of the Digital Generation. Under Open Hardware licensing by Open_Sailing and openet.org. Everyone is welcome to join, contribute, modify, produce, distribute, share their findings and help develop standards...
FunkFeuer is an open, non-commercial initiative for free networks. It will create an unregulated network, which has the potential to bridge the digital divide between social layers and thus provide infrastructure and knowledge. Each person makes their node available to other participants for data transmission in accordance with the principles of the Pico Peering Agreement, thus allowing free traffic within the network.
At beacon the DIY (Do It Yourself) idea is in the foreground. Every node in the network is set up and run by volunteers, the community provides know-how and practical help.
SMesh is a seamless wireless mesh network being developed by the Distributed System and Networks Lab at Johns Hopkins University. It provides peer-to-peer connectivity, Internet connectivity, and fast handoff to mobile clients across the mesh. Clients get connected automatically through standard DHCP. No software or drivers need to be installed on the mobile devices. SMesh takes care of providing end-to-end connectivity transparently for the clients.
Ronja is a free technology project for reliable optical data links with a current range of 1.4km and a communication speed of 10Mbps full duplex.
Applications of this wireless networking device include backbone of free, public, and community networks, individual and corporate Internet connectivity, and also home and building security. High reliability and availability linking is possible in combination with WiFi devices. The Twibright Ronja datalink can network neighbouring houses with cross-street ethernet access, solve the last mile problem for ISP’s, or provide a link layer for fast neighbourhood mesh networks.
Coova is an open-source software access controller for captive portal (UAM) and 802.1X access provisioning, based on the popular (but now defunct) ChilliSpot project, and is actively maintained by an original ChilliSpot contributor. CoovaChilli is released under the GNU General Public
OpenNIC An organization of hobbyists who run an alternative DNS network, also provides access to domains not administered by ICANN.
Babel is a loop-avoiding distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6 and IPv4 with fast convergence properties. It is based on the ideas in DSDV, AODV and Cisco's EIGRP, but is designed to work well not only in wired networks but also in wireless mesh networks, and has been extended with support for overlay networks. Babel is in the process of becoming an IETF Standard.
SolarMESH is an IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN mesh network developed by the McMaster University Wireless Networking Group under the supervision of Professor Terry Todd. SolarMESH provides industry standard outdoor wireless hotspot coverage for WiFi end stations. This is accomplished by functioning as a WLAN mesh network and doing backhaul traffic relaying between SolarMESH nodes.
Syndie (software for publishing forums over anonymity networks) is an open source system for operating distributed forums offering a secure and consistent interface to various anonymous and non-anonymous content networks.
Cicn (formerly CCNx) is an approach to evolve the Internet infrastructure to directly support data-centric and location independent communications by introducing uniquely named data as a core Internet principle. Data access becomes independent from location, application and storage, enabling in-network caching and and anchor-less mobility. The expected benefits are improved efficiency, better scalability with respect to information/bandwidth demand and better robustness in challenging communication scenarios. These concepts are known under different terms, including but not limited to: Content-Centric Networking (CCN), Named Data Networking (NDN), the network of information (Netinf) and Publish/Subscribe Networking (PSIRP).
WING is an open-source Wireless Mesh Networking platform aimed at hobbyists and enthusiasts.
Multiple radio interfaces support delivers improved spatial reuse and enhanced system throughput. An interference and traffic aware channel assignment algorithm is used in order to dynamically assign the operating frequencies.
No need of configuration, mesh boxes works out of the box. Nodes automatically detect whether they are relays or gateways.
Internet connectivity is provided by the Mesh Gateways using either wired or wireless links. Three tiers deployments are supported allowing connectivity to be provided using using point-to-multipoint wireless links.
WING implements several QoS enhancements aimed at improving the voice capacity of the system and at providing performance isolation among competing flows in noisy environments. Traffic differentiation is provided by means of a multi-queue system based on the DiffServ framework
JonDonym is a proxy client and will forward the traffic of your internet applications encrypted to the mix cascades and so it will hide your ip address.
anonNet visit at your own risk!! It's working insecure connection
LibreMesh is a modular framework for creating OpenWrt/LEDE-based firmwares for wireless mesh nodes. Several communities around the world use LibreMesh as the foundation of their local mesh firmwares.
Waali wireless Using open source software and renewable energy resource to power a decentralized platform to deliver educational materials to help improve life skills. The wireless network will isolate users to use vpn services to reach each other. Its built on a mesh networking link using an sdr radio as the main gateway or bridge. The bulk of traffic will use rss torrents to share a digital library of pdfs and creative commons archives distributed using local network messaging applications or applications such as retroshare. Currently uses clound controlled mesh nodes but want to switch to SDR-router based relays with dd-wrt/FreeNAS servers to host network file services.
Firetide :In today’s world the need to create safe environments has become paramount. Those who are responsible for and oversee our communities, like city governments, police departments and corporate communications and security, need a reliable way to ensure the safety and security of the spaces where we all live, work and play. Firetide enables the creation of best in class adaptable, flexible and scalable systems which keeps citizens safe, reduces crime, assists with emergency preparedness and disaster relief.
Cisco Meraki something regarding networks
Osiris Serverless Portal System Software for decentralized portal, managed and shared via P2P between members.
IPFS is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open.
Retroshare creates encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, asynchronous messaging,... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. The software is entirely open-source and free. It is available on Windows, MacOS and most linux distributions. There are no costs, no ads and no Terms of Service.
Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs. If Bitmessage is completely new to you, you may wish to start by reading the whitepaper
Substratum is an open-source network that allows anyone to allocate spare computing resources to make the internet a free and fair place for the entire world.
Blockstack is a new internet for decentralized apps where users own their data. A browser is all that’s needed to get started.
Note the discription about these networks are taken from there home page and visit at your own risk most of the networks i have not used yet!