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Glossary of terms used on this site
There are 4 entries in this glossary.All
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 written in the C programming language. It pools the contributed bandwidth and storage space of member computers to allow users to anonymously publish or retrieve information of all kinds. The name "Entropy" is a backronym 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. |
| Freenet |
Freenet is a decentralized, censorship-resistant distributed data store originally designed by Ian Clarke. According to Clarke, Freenet aims to provide freedom of speech through a peer-to-peer network with strong protection of anonymity; as part of supporting its users' freedom, Freenet is free and open source software. Freenet works by pooling the contributed bandwidth and storage space of member computers to allow users to anonymously publish or retrieve various kinds of information. Freenet has been under continuous development since 2000. |
| Mixmaster |
Mixmaster is a Type II anonymous remailer which sends messages in fixed-size packets and reorders them, preventing anyone watching the messages go in and out of remailers from tracing them. Mixmaster was originally written by Lance Cottrell, and is now maintained by Len Sassaman and Peter Palfrader. Current Mixmaster software can be compiled to handle Cypherpunk messages as well; they are needed as reply blocks for nym servers. |
| Mixminion |
Mixminion is the standard implementation of the Type III anonymous remailer protocol. Mixminion can send and receive anonymous E-mail. Mixminion uses a mix network architecture to provide strong anonymity, and prevent eavesdroppers and other attackers from linking senders and recipients. Volunteers run servers (called "mixes") that receive messages, and decrypt them, re-order them, and re-transmit them toward their eventual destination. Every E-mail passes through several mixes so that no single mix can link message senders with recipients. |
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