Entropy

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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. The term "Entropy" is a backronym for "Emerging Network To Reduce Orwellian Potency Yield," referring to George Orwell 's famous novel 1984 and its totalitarian thought police enslaving people by controlling their information.

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.

Here are the main features and goals of Entropy:

• Entropy is developed as a response to increasing censorship and surveillance in the internet. The program connects your computer to a network of machines which all run this software. The Entropy network is running parallel to the WWW and also other internet services like FTP, email, ICQ. etc.
• For the user the Entropy network looks like a collection of WWW pages. The difference to the WWW however is that there are no accesses to central servers. And this is why there is no site operator who could log who downloaded what and when. Every computer taking part in the Entropy network (every node) is at the same time server, router for other nodes, caching proxy and client for the user: that is you.
• After you gained some experience with the Entropy network, there are command line tools for you to insert whole directory trees into the network as a Entropy site. So Entropy does for you what a webspace provider does for you in the WWW – but without the storage and bandwidth costs and without any regulation or policy as to what kind of content you are allowed to publish.
• Everyone can contribute his own Entropy site for everybody else to browse through. The contents is stored in a distributed manner across all available and reachable nodes and no one can find out about who put up what contents into the network. Even if your node is not actively running, your contents can be retrieved by others – without knowing that it was actually you who published the files. Of course this is only true if you do not publish your name (or leave your name or other personal data in the files you publish)