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Revision as of 04:20, 12 September 2005
- For entropy in the context of thermodynamics, see entropy.
Entropy is a decentralized, peer-to-peer communication network designed to be resistant to censorship, much like freenet. Entropy is an anonymous data store. It pools the contributed bandwidth and storage space of member computers to allow users to anonymously publish or retrieve information of all kinds. The term "Entropy" is an acronym for "Emerging Network To Reduce Orwellian Potency Yield," referring to George Orwell's famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and its totalitarian thought police enslaving people by controlling their information.
Contents
Why not Freenet?
Freenet has two disagreeing schools of routing management, and a lot of code bloat. It was the first of its kind and suffers much of the lack of prior experience. Some problems, such as the unweildy FCP split file calculation, are handled automatically with Entropy, whereas Freenet requires every program to manually perform those operations.
Entropy was written somewhat in response to Freenet. It accomplishes the same task, and has the same interface, but the internal implementation is very different. Written in C, it is much faster, and easy on the computer's resources. It still has a large memory signature and multiple processes, but can be run without notice on a decent machine.
Any programs (Frost, Fishtools, Freenet Tools, FIW) that run on Freenet can be configured to run on Entropy since Entropy was designed as a working replacement for Freenet, and thus has the same interface. Entropy also has a web proxy built in for sending and requesting keys, like Freenet. Unlike Freenet, Entropy also has a built in news interface, for reading and posting on the latest frost message boards all without having to run any programs besides the data store.
See also
External links
World Wide Web links
- Entropy home page
- Clients that work with Entropy
- Slashdot: Entropy Project Closes Up Shop
- Entropy Forum
Freenet links
- Note: These freesite links cannot be viewed without prior set up. For explanation on how to set up a connection see ways to view a freesite.
- localhost is assumed as the base for the freesite
Credits
This articles is partially based on wikipedia:Entropy (anonymous data store)
