GNUnet

GNUnet project invited to ICANN66 We are delighted to announce that ICANN has invited the GNUnet project to speak at the next ICANN Annual General Meeting . We have been invited to join a panel discussion on ... [More] Emerging Internet Identifier Technologies in order to share our ideas and work on the GNU Name System (GNS) . ICANN generously offered to cover travel and accomodation. The meeting will take place in Montreal between 2 - 7 November. The panel will tentatively be help on November 6th. UPDATE: The panel is on Tueday, November 5th 13:30 EDT with the possibility of remote participation: Link [Less]

2019-10-04: GNS Technical Specification Milestone 1/4 We are happy to announce the completion of the first milestone for the GNS Specification. The objective is to provide a detailed ... [More] and comprehensive guide for implementors of the GNU Name System. The initial milestone consists of documenting the cryptographic principles of GNS data structures. This includes the specification of the GNS record wire and serialization formats as well as internationalization. The draft specification LSD001 can be found at: Git: LSD001 Link to TXT version Likn to HTML version The next milestone will bring the resolver logic specification. This work is generously funded by NLnet as part of their Search and discovery fund. [Less]

GNS Technical Specification Milestone 1/4 We are happy to announce the completion of the first milestone for the GNS Specification. The objective is to provide a detailed and comprehensive guide for implementors of the GNU Name ... [More] System. The initial milestone consists of documenting the cryptographic principles of GNS data structures. This includes the specification of the GNS record wire and serialization formats as well as internationalization. NOTE: The currently specified protocol is planned to be implemented for GNUnet 0.12. The current GNS implementation (0.11) exhibits minor but compatibility breaking deviations from this specification. The draft specification LSD001 can be found at: Git: LSD001 Link to TXT version Link to HTML version The next milestone will bring the resolver logic specification. This work is generously funded by NLnet as part of their Search and discovery fund . [Less]

2019-07-24: GNUnet 0.11.6 released We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.6. This is a bugfix release for 0.11.5, fixing a lot of ... [More] minor bugs, improving stability and code quality. Further, our videos are back on the homepage. In this release, we again improved the webpage in general and updated our documentation. As always: In terms of usability, users should be aware that there are still a large number of known open issues in particular with respect to ease of use, but also some critical privacy issues especially for mobile users. Also, the nascent network is tiny (about 200 peers) and thus unlikely to provide good anonymity or extensive amounts of interesting information. As a result, the 0.11.6 release is still only suitable for early adopters with some reasonable pain tolerance. Download links http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.6.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.6.tar.gz.sig http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.5.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.5.tar.gz.sig http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz.sig gnunet-gtk and gnunet-fuse were not released again, as there were no changes and the 0.11.0 versions are expected to continue to work fine with gnunet-0.11.6. Note that due to mirror synchronization, not all links might be functional early after the release. For direct access try http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/ Noteworthy changes in 0.11.6 (since 0.11.5) gnunet-identity can now print private keys. The REST service can be configured to echo the HTTP Origin header value for Cross-Origin-Resource-Sharing (CORS) when it is called by a browser plugin. Optionally, a CORS Origin to echo can be also be directly configured. re:claimID tickets are now re-used whenever possible. SUID binary detection mechanisms implemented to improve compatiblity with some distributions. TRANSPORT, TESTBED and CADET tests now pass again on macOS. The GNS proxy Certification Authority is now generated using gnutls-certtool, if available, with opennssl/certtool as fallback. Documentation, comments and code quality was improved. Known Issues There are known major design issues in the TRANSPORT, ATS and CORE subsystems which will need to be addressed in the future to achieve acceptable usability, performance and security. There are known moderate implementation limitations in CADET that negatively impact performance. Also CADET may unexpectedly deliver messages out-of-order. There are known moderate design issues in FS that also impact usability and performance. There are minor implementation limitations in SET that create unnecessary attack surface for availability. The RPS subsystem remains experimental. Some high-level tests in the test-suite fail non-deterministically due to the low-level TRANSPORT issues. In addition to this list, you may also want to consult our bug tracker at bugs.gnunet.org which lists about 190 more specific issues. Thanks This release was the work of many people. The following people contributed code and were thus easily identified: Martin Schanzenbach, Julius Bünger, ng0, Christian Grothoff, Alexia Pagkopoulou, rexxnor, xrs, lurchi and t3sserakt. [Less]

GNUnet 0.11.6 released We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.6. This is a bugfix release for 0.11.5, fixing a lot of minor bugs, improving stability and code quality. Further, our videos are back on the ... [More] homepage. In this release, we again improved the webpage in general and updated our documentation. As always: In terms of usability, users should be aware that there are still a large number of known open issues in particular with respect to ease of use, but also some critical privacy issues especially for mobile users. Also, the nascent network is tiny (about 200 peers) and thus unlikely to provide good anonymity or extensive amounts of interesting information. As a result, the 0.11.6 release is still only suitable for early adopters with some reasonable pain tolerance . Download links http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.6.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.6.tar.gz.sig http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.6.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.6.tar.gz.sig http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz.sig gnunet-fuse was not released again, as there were no changes and the 0.11.0 versions are expected to continue to work fine with gnunet-0.11.6. Note that due to mirror synchronization, not all links might be functional early after the release. For direct access try http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/ Noteworthy changes in 0.11.6 (since 0.11.5) gnunet-identity can now print private keys. The REST service can be configured to echo the HTTP Origin header value for Cross-Origin-Resource-Sharing (CORS) when it is called by a browser plugin. Optionally, a CORS Origin to echo can be also be directly configured. re:claimID tickets are now re-used whenever possible. SUID binary detection mechanisms implemented to improve compatiblity with some distributions. TRANSPORT , TESTBED and CADET tests now pass again on macOS. CADET : Replaced enum GNUNET_CADET_ChannelOption with GNUNET_MQ_PriorityPreferences in preparation of API changed in the future. The GNS proxy Certification Authority is now generated using gnutls-certtool, if available, with opennssl/certtool as fallback. Documentation, comments and code quality was improved. Known Issues There are known major design issues in the TRANSPORT, ATS and CORE subsystems which will need to be addressed in the future to achieve acceptable usability, performance and security. There are known moderate implementation limitations in CADET that negatively impact performance. There are known moderate design issues in FS that also impact usability and performance. There are minor implementation limitations in SET that create unnecessary attack surface for availability. The RPS subsystem remains experimental. Some high-level tests in the test-suite fail non-deterministically due to the low-level TRANSPORT issues. In addition to this list, you may also want to consult our bug tracker at bugs.gnunet.org which lists about 190 more specific issues. Thanks This release was the work of many people. The following people contributed code and were thus easily identified: Martin Schanzenbach, Julius Bünger, ng0, Christian Grothoff, Alexia Pagkopoulou, rexxnor, xrs, lurchi and t3sserakt. [Less]

GNUnet Hacker Meeting in August 2019 at Wernsdort (near Berlin) In August 2019, some of us met in Wernsdorf for focused work on GNUnet.

Peer DSTJ is dead, long live peer Y924 After some issues with our infrastructure we needed to replace our bootstrapping peer. To avoid problems when connecting to GNUnet the operator of a peer needs to update its node by ... [More] removing the peer ID DSTJBRRKZ8TBW3FGK6B0M5QXWT9WYNZ45H5MCV4HY7ST64Q8T9F0 from the system. Here are two strategies to find copies of the respective file: $ locate DSTJBRRKZ8TBW3FGK6B0M5QXWT9WYNZ45H5MCV4HY7ST64Q8T9F0 $ find / -name DSTJBRRKZ8TBW3FGK6B0M5QXWT9WYNZ45H5MCV4HY7ST64Q8T9F0 Update: DSTJ has now been blacklisted. Please update your GNUnet peer. [Less]

2019-06-05: GNUnet 0.11.5 released We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.5. This is a bugfix release for 0.11.4, mostly fixing a few minor bugs and improving performance, in particular for identity ... [More] management with a large number of egos. In the wake of this release, we also launched the REST API documentation. In terms of usability, users should be aware that there are still a large number of known open issues in particular with respect to ease of use, but also some critical privacy issues especially for mobile users. Also, the nascent network is tiny (about 200 peers) and thus unlikely to provide good anonymity or extensive amounts of interesting information. As a result, the 0.11.5 release is still only suitable for early adopters with some reasonable pain tolerance. Download links http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.5.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.5.tar.gz.sig http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.5.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.5.tar.gz.sig http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz.sig gnunet-gtk saw some minor changes to adopt it to API changes in the main code related to the identity improvements. gnunet-fuse was not released again, as there were no changes and the 0.11.0 version is expected to continue to work fine with gnunet-0.11.5. Note that due to mirror synchronization, not all links might be functional early after the release. For direct access try http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/ Noteworthy changes in 0.11.5 (since 0.11.4) gnunet-identity is much faster when creating or deleting egos given a large number of existing egos. GNS now supports CAA records. Documentation, comments and code quality was improved. Known Issues There are known major design issues in the TRANSPORT, ATS and CORE subsystems which will need to be addressed in the future to achieve acceptable usability, performance and security. There are known moderate implementation limitations in CADET that negatively impact performance. Also CADET may unexpectedly deliver messages out-of-order. There are known moderate design issues in FS that also impact usability and performance. There are minor implementation limitations in SET that create unnecessary attack surface for availability. The RPS subsystem remains experimental. Some high-level tests in the test-suite fail non-deterministically due to the low-level TRANSPORT issues. In addition to this list, you may also want to consult our bug tracker at bugs.gnunet.org which lists about 190 more specific issues. Thanks This release was the work of many people. The following people contributed code and were thus easily identified: Christian Grothoff, Florian Dold, Marcello Stanisci, ng0, Martin Schanzenbach and Bernd Fix. [Less]

GNUnet 0.11.5 released We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.5. This is a bugfix release for 0.11.4, mostly fixing a few minor bugs and improving performance, in particular for identity management with a ... [More] large number of egos. In the wake of this release, we also launched the REST API documentation . In terms of usability, users should be aware that there are still a large number of known open issues in particular with respect to ease of use, but also some critical privacy issues especially for mobile users. Also, the nascent network is tiny (about 200 peers) and thus unlikely to provide good anonymity or extensive amounts of interesting information. As a result, the 0.11.5 release is still only suitable for early adopters with some reasonable pain tolerance. Download links http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.5.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.5.tar.gz.sig http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.5.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.5.tar.gz.sig http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz.sig gnunet-gtk saw some minor changes to adopt it to API changes in the main code related to the identity improvements. gnunet-fuse was not released again, as there were no changes and the 0.11.0 version is expected to continue to work fine with gnunet-0.11.5. Note that due to mirror synchronization, not all links might be functional early after the release. For direct access try http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/ Noteworthy changes in 0.11.5 (since 0.11.4) gnunet-identity is much faster when creating or deleting egos given a large number of existing egos. GNS now supports CAA records. Documentation, comments and code quality was improved. Known Issues There are known major design issues in the TRANSPORT, ATS and CORE subsystems which will need to be addressed in the future to achieve acceptable usability, performance and security. There are known moderate implementation limitations in CADET that negatively impact performance. Also CADET may unexpectedly deliver messages out-of-order. There are known moderate design issues in FS that also impact usability and performance. There are minor implementation limitations in SET that create unnecessary attack surface for availability. The RPS subsystem remains experimental. Some high-level tests in the test-suite fail non-deterministically due to the low-level TRANSPORT issues. In addition to this list, you may also want to consult our bug tracker at bugs.gnunet.org which lists about 190 more specific issues. Thanks This release was the work of many people. The following people contributed code and were thus easily identified: Christian Grothoff, Florian Dold, Marcello Stanisci, ng0, Martin Schanzenbach and Bernd Fix. [Less]

GNUnet Hacker Meeting 2019 at La Décentrale, Switzerland The members of the GNUnet community met again in the wonderful souroundings of St. Imier to hack on GNUnet. New people joined our sessions until late at night. From bug ... [More] squashing to digging our own dog food, from workshops to theoretical discussions of new services and usecases. And of course, pizza was in the game. [Less]