GNUnet에 대하여

GNUnet이란?

GNUnet은 안전하고 분권적이며 개인 정보를 보호할 수 있는 분산형 어플리케이션을 만들기 위한 대체적 네트워크 스택입니다. 우리의 목표는 오래되어 안전하지 않은 인터넷 프로토콜 스택을 대체하는 것입니다. 우리는 파일의 안전한 게시를 위한 응용 프로그램에서부터 시작하여, GNU 인터넷 생성을 위한 모든 종류의 기본 프로토콜 구성요소와 응용 프로그램을 포함하게 되기까지 성장했습니다.

오늘날, 글로벌 네트워크를 사람들이 이용하는 방식과 그에 따라 네트워크에 주어지는 사회적 책임은, 1970년의 그것과는 매우 다릅니다. 위계에 의해 네트워크 장비가 운용되고 외부 사회와 격리되어 있는 군대에서 사용하기에는 인터넷이 여전히 유용할지 모르지만, 시민 사회에서의 상황은 달라졌습니다.

Due to fundamental Internet design choices, Internet traffic can be misdirected, intercepted, censored and manipulated by hostile routers on the network. And indeed, the modern Internet has evolved exactly to the point where, as Matthew Green put it, "the network is hostile".

We believe liberal societies need a network architecture that uses the anti-authoritarian decentralized peer-to-peer paradigm and privacy-preserving cryptographic protocols. The goal of the GNUnet project is to provide a Free Software realization of this ideal.

Specifically, GNUnet tries to follow the following design principles, in order of importance:

  1. GNUnet must be implemented as Free Software.
  2. GNUnet must minimize the amount of personally identifiable information exposed.
  3. GNUnet must be fully distributed and resilient to external attacks and rogue participants.
  4. GNUnet must be self-organizing and not depend on administrators or centralized infrastructure.
  5. GNUnet must inform the user which other participants have to be trusted when establishing private communications.
  6. GNUnet must be open and permit new peers to join.
  7. GNUnet must support a diverse range of applications and devices.
  8. GNUnet must use compartmentalization to protect sensitive information.
  9. The GNUnet architecture must be resource efficient.
  10. GNUnet must provide incentives for peers to contribute more resources than they consume.

To get know and learn more, please check our handbook, especially the chapter on "Key Concepts", explaining the fundamental concepts of GNUnet.

More Resources

There are many more resources to learn about GNUnet besides the handbook, such as the bibliography with papers covering the various layers, many videos or a brief glossary.

Please be aware that this project is (despite of it's age) still in an early alpha stage when it comes to software – its not an easy task to rewrite the whole Internet!

Current funding

  • This project is receiving funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme NGI Assure.
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