On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:59, Michael Beattie wrote: > * Package name : entropy > Description : Emerging Network To Reduce Orwellian Potency Yield
This doesn't really tell me anything about ENTROPY. How about "anti-censorship network client"? > 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. The acronym ENTROPY should be defined in the first line of the long description. > 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 Of course this is only true if you do not publish your 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) This is a good, though perhaps too detailed, long description. A general (non-ITP-related) question: Is ENTROPY related to Freenet in any way? -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My weblog doesn't detail my personal life: http://me.woot.net
