anoNet

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:13:44 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

anoNet is an anonymous network within a network. It operates via an OpenVPN link to an anoNet router. Worked for me in Puppy Linux. Interesting. [slashdot]

In early 2005, a few people fed up with the way the Internet was heading, began in earnest to create a large wide area network that was secure and lived in its own space. On this new network anyone would be free to do as they saw fit - roam about, host services, or just be social without fear of being monitored or even worse censored. The first step to bring this network to fruition was to encrypt the information that normally travels across the Internet. What they ended up with is known as anoNet.

From the FAQ:

What does it run?

It currently has webservers, ftp servers, wikis, DNS, search engines, email, webmail, IRC, IM, bittorrent, streaming audio. Basically if it is on the Internet, then it is on anoNet. We try to make sure that we have a replacement for any and everything that is on the Internet.
But how does it work?

It works just as the Internet itself works, but instead of physical cables stretched across the ocean bottom, we use private, virtual cables created with OpenVPN. Instead of Cisco routers we use a software solution from quagga. We use the BGP routing protocol for its robustness and access control features.

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