Distributed internet

Towards a suite of software that will work as a turnkey solution to provide distributed, anonymised and encrypted access to a wifi extranet

Watching

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljt1cxUcZMM
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG0moesXmQg

Reading

• Anonymity Bibliography Selected Papers in Anonymity
• http://www.typewith.me/the-web-we-need

Mesh/p2p networking

Mesh WiFi

• Wireless mesh network
• Mesh networking
• List of ad hoc routing protocols
• Mesh networking
• Building a Rural Wireless Mesh Network document

Layer 1 (Physical)

Wireless protocols

• - 802.11 etc
• - 80211s development
• - 802.16 - WiMax
• 802.22 - white space
• 802.20 - Mobile-Fi

• HSMM-MESH?

• BlueWave Wi-Fi Blimp
• http://www.google.com/search?q=wifi+%22open+hardware%22
• http://openspectrum.info/

Layer 2 & 3 (Data Link & Network)

Protocols

• AODV
• OLSR
• BMX6 - layer 2
• Babel - loop-free distance-vector routing protocol
• Open Mesh B.A.T.M.A.N. - layer 2 & 3
• Netsukuku [1] - layer 2 & 3, etc

Existing networks

• Wireless Battle of the Mesh
• guifi.net - European, 17.905 nodes! protocols

• freifunk - OLSR and B.A.T.M.A.N
• funkfeuer 802.11b OLSR

• Mesh&Stir - Mauritius mesh
• CUWiN 802.11b networks

• #openmesh

• Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing

• OLSRd OLSR daemon

Router software

• dd-wrt

• nodewatcher centralized network monitoring platform
• Free Networks volunteer cooperative association
• Nodecity - thing with trust metric

Hardware

• Meraki triple-radio 802.11n

http://cs.itd.nrl.navy.mil/projects/ http://piratepad.net/new-intranets

Higher layers

VPN

• https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/VPN
• https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/OpenVPN
• https://cryptoanarchy.org/wiki/OpenVPN
• http://socialvpn.wordpress.com - P2P VPS that uses on Jabber/XMPP

• https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Extranet

Onion/Garlic Routing encrypted anonymisers

• https://torproject.org/ - "The Onion Router" - Developed by the US Navy and EFF, widely used.
• https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en - Easy to use, for USB sticks.
• http://i2p2.de/ - "Invisible Internet Protocol" - Uses 'garlic' routing. Java based but not as developed as Tor?

• http://syndie.i2p2.de - Software for blogging on a I2P network

Darknets

• Darknet
• AnoNet - built using VPNs and software BGP routers
• DarkNET Conglomeration
• Dn42

• GNUnet

Routing

• OpenBGPD
• Mikrotik RouterOS

IPv6

• SixXS

DNS

• Pseudo-top-level_domain
• Telecomix DNS
  • Next Level pad
• P2P-DNS
• DNSCurve
  • http://bd.hauke-lampe.de/dnssec/how-to-install-dnscurve.html

P2P web cache

• Yacy - Distributed web search service

P2P sharing

• Private P2P
• https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Friend-to-friend Friend-to-friend]
• http://streisand.me/egyptVideos.php

P2P sharing & streaming

• Tribler [2] [3]
• [4]

P2P hosting

• Freenet [5]

"While users can insert data into the network, there is no way to delete data. Due to the anonymity, no node knows who is the 'owner' of a piece of data. The only way data can be removed is if users don't request the data."

to check;

• https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mute-Net
• https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Oneswarm

• https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/OFFSystem
• http://www.freehaven.net/
• http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs - Tahoe-LAFS is a Free and Open cloud storage system.

File sharing

• http://www.foo.be/forban/ simple link-local opportunistic p2p free software

OStatus based decentralised social networks;

• Status.net, what powers identi.ca
• GNU Social
• Diaspora

http://wiki.openid.net/w/page/12995226/Run-your-own-identity-server

Community & group participation

• http://daviswiki.org/Front_Page
• http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/
• http://swift.ushahidi.com/ / http://ushahidi.com/ - collaborative curation of news, mapping and SMS focus
• http://managingnews.com - Drupal aggregation of news
• https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_collaborative_software#Classic_client.E2.80.93server_solutions

XMPP

• XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) powers Jabber/GChat/GTalk, turnkey solution?
• OneSocialWeb XMPP based social network

VoIP

• http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Open+Source+VOIP+Software

'Stacks'

• PirateBox
  • PirateBoxLaptop DIY

• http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox

Misc.

• http://cryptoanarchy.org - Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau is part of Telecomix. Many good and tasty links.
• http://cryptonation.com/

Related articles

• http://we-need-a-free-and-open-social-network.wikispaces.com/Federated+Social+Network+Applications
• http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html - 'The dotCommunist Manifesto'
• http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-4/network-organisation-for-the-21st-century/
• http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs