ANN: Infocalypse 2.0 hg extension: DVC in the Darknet

Darrell dkarbott at comcast.net
Thu Aug 6 17:17:16 CDT 2009


Freenet (http://freenetproject.org/) is a decentralized, censorship-resistant 
distributed data store.  It is essentially an encrypted overlay network 
(a "Darknet") which runs on top of the internet.  

I've written a Mercurial extension that allows users to create and maintain 
incrementally updateable repositories in Freenet.  The authoritative 
repository for the extension's code is hosted in Freenet but I'm also 
mirroring it to bitbucket:
hg clone http://bitbucket.org/dkarbott/infocalypse_hgext/

If you're curious the  ./infocalypse/doc/infocalypse_howto.html(*) file is
a good place to get started.

To actually use the extension you need to be running(**) a local Freenet node.

Feedback and constructive criticism welcomed.

Regards,

-- Darrell

(*) Contains links to other documents in Freenet which won't work.
If you're running a Freenet node, you can view it on this freesite:  
USK at -bk9znYylSCOEDuSWAvo5m72nUeMxKkDmH3nIqAeI-0,qfu5H3FZsZ-5rfNBY-jQHS5Ke7AT2PtJWd13IrPZjcg,AQACAAE/feral_codewright/14/infocalypse_howto.html

(**) Freenet may not be for everyone. Wikipedia has a pretty neutral overview 
(or at least it did the last time I checked):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet


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