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StealthNet

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Initial release
  
2007

Development status
  
Unmaintained

Operating system
  
Windows, Linux

Stable release
  
0.8.7.9 / 2011

Written in
  
C#


Developer(s)
  
Planet Peer community members

StealthNet is an anonymous P2P file sharing software based on the original RShare client, and has been enhanced. It use the same network as RShare.

Contents

Development was stopped in March 2011, with version 0.8.7.9, with no official explanation on the web site.

In 2012, the developers had an incident with the software Apache Subversion, a part of the source code of StealthNet was lost : versions 0.8.7.5 (February 2010) to 0.8.7.9 (October 2010).

Features

Some of the features of StealhNet:

  • Resumption of interrupted downloads.
  • Mix network (use for the pseudo anonymous process)
  • Advanced Encryption Standard process (used for the point-to-point traffic encryption)
  • Segmented file transfer

    • Drawbacks

  • There is no technical documentation about the network protocol.
  • Anonymity is unproven.
  • The source code contains no documentation at all.
  • The source code is only partially available.
  • The encryption (AES) is 128 bits only.

    • References

    StealthNet Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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