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1 =head1 Darknet Comparison |
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3 Back to homepage - L<http://www.anonet2.org/> |
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5 There are a number of darknets out there. Different darknets have |
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6 different features, which any individual may consider as advantages (or |
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7 disadvantages) depending on his goals. This page attempts to present |
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8 an accurate comparison between the different darknets known to SRN. |
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9 In particular, SRN has attempted to avoid being unjustly critical of |
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10 AnoNet1 even after having been a victim of AnoNet1's ugly side on multiple |
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11 occasions (although obviously, no attempt has been made to avoid "earned" |
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12 criticism). If you'd like to add other darknets to this table, keep |
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13 in mind that all of anonet2.org is freely editable from within AnoNet. |
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14 If none of the existing darknets suit your needs, you're encouraged |
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15 to advertise your new one here. You're also more than welcome to spam |
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16 AnoNet IRC for new members, but if your advertisements get redundant and |
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17 boring and redundant and repetitive and redundant after a while, don't |
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18 be surprised if people start b</ignore>ing you. (Please don't let that |
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19 discourage you, if you truly believe your new darknet is worth joining. |
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20 You may want to rethink your advertising strategy, though.) You may |
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21 also be able to get help in planning and/or building a new darknet on |
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22 AnoNet IRC. |
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24 Please keep in mind that this comparison is mostly focused on relative |
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26 networks. If the latter is more important to you than the former, you're |
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27 almost certainly wasting your time here. If you'd like to understand |
| 153 | 28 more about the mechanics of anonymity, L<there's a whole separate page |
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| 156 | 33 <table> |
| 34 <tr><th colspan='5'>Overview</th></tr> | |
| 35 <tr><td> </td><th>AnoNet1</th><th>AnoNet2</th><th>dn42</th><th>VAnet</th></tr> | |
| 36 <tr><th>Claimed Purpose</th><td>anonymity to prevent censorship</td><td>anonymity to prevent censorship</td><td>have fun with BGP</td><td>freedom and network efficiency</td></tr> | |
| 37 <tr><th>Claimed Government</th><td>nearly none</td><td>none</td><td>nearly none</td><td>backbone only</td></tr> | |
| 38 <tr><th>Actual Government</th><td>oligarchy</td><td>none</td><td>nearly none</td><td>backbone only</td></tr> | |
| 39 <tr><th>Actual Government betrays Claimed Purpose</th><td>yes</td><td>no</td><td>no</td><td>no</td></tr> | |
| 40 <tr><th>Centralized Critical Infrastructure</th><td>wiki (includes resource database), client port, IRC</td><td>none</td><td>wiki, IRC</td><td>all</td></tr> | |
| 41 <tr><th>Decentralized Critical Infrastructure</th><td>routing</td><td>all</td><td>routing, resource database</td><td>none</td></tr> | |
| 42 <tr><th>Current Size</th><td>20-30</td><td>~10</td><td>40-50</td><td><5</td></tr> | |
| 43 <tr><th>Average Monthly Growth</th><td>~0%</td><td>~20%</td><td>~5%</td><td>~10%</td></tr> | |
| 44 <tr><th>Activity Level</th><td>medium</td><td>medium</td><td>medium</td><td>low</td></tr> | |
| 45 <tr><th>Interdarknet Connectivity</th><td>censored access to AnoNet2 (must use AnoNet2 DNS), censored access to dn42 (must use AnoNet2 DNS)</td><td>full routing to part of AnoNet1, full routing to part of dn42, full routing to VAnet</td><td>censored access to AnoNet (1&2, must use SRN's DNS), censored access to VAnet (must use SRN's DNS)</td><td>full routing to part of AnoNet1, full routing to AnoNet2, full routing to part of dn42</td></tr> | |
| 46 <tr><th>DNS Coverage</th><td>AnoNet1</td><td>AnoNet (1&2), dn42, VAnet, IcannNet</td><td>dn42, IcannNet</td><td>AnoNet (1&2), dn42, VAnet, IcannNet</td></tr> | |
| 47 <tr><th>Peering Prerequisites</th><td>OpenVPN, BGP daemon, sustained IRC participation for over a month</td><td>OpenVPN or tinc or quicktun, BGP daemon or static routing</td><td>OpenVPN, BGP daemon or static routing</td><td>depends on individual PoP policy</td></tr> | |
| 48 <tr><th colspan='5'>Services</th></tr> | |
| 49 <tr><td> </td><th>AnoNet1</th><th>AnoNet2</th><th>dn42</th><th>VAnet</th></tr> | |
| 50 <tr><th>Routing</th><td>decentralized</td><td>decentralized</td><td>decentralized</td><td>centralized</td> | |
| 51 <tr><th>Resource Database</th><td>centralized (part of wiki)</td><td>decentralized (part of git-based resdb)</td><td>decentralized (part of monotone-based registry)</td><td>centralized (ask Borg)</td></tr> | |
| 52 <tr><th>Documentation</th><td>centralized (crzydmnd's wiki)</td><td>decentralized (part of git-based resdb)</td><td>centralized (helios's wiki)</td><td>centralized (vanet.org)</td></tr> | |
| 53 <tr><th>Chatroom</th><td>centralized (single IRCnet)</td><td>decentralized (ad-hoc relaying between IRC and Jabber chatrooms)</td><td>semicentralized (single IRCnet, with a Jabber chatroom relay)</td><td>decentralized (shared with AnoNet2)</td></tr> | |
| 54 <tr><th>DNS</th><td>centralized (from wiki), several official "rootservers"</td><td>decentralized (from resdb), each user fields his own, public nameservers available for the lazy</td><td>decentralized (from registry), multiple competing deployments</td><td>centralized (from svn), centralized official deployment</td></tr> | |
| 55 <tr><th>BitTorrent Trackers/Indexers</th><td>none?</td><td>1 centralized and 1 decentralized (git-based)</td><td>1 centralized</td><td>1 centralized</td></tr> | |
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