This is the official wiki of the research and software project '''''[[Echt Dezentrales Netz|EDN]]''''' ([[Echt Dezentrales Netz]] - real decentralized network).
We verify the applicability of existing technologies (see [[Echt Dezentrales Netz#Recherche | Recherche]]) and aim to integrate them into a comprehensive product.
: There are indeed solutions like Tor or PGP which can partially patch the shortcomings of the infrastructure, but each user has to take care of that it for herself. Anonymization and encryption are not in the standard configuration.
'''Our goal is to use the existing resources to form a difficult-to-monitor cellphone/router/computer network.''' There are plenty of software solutions ([[Echt Dezentrales Netz#Recherche|Recherche]]) with the goal of protecting the privacy of its users. Preexisting structures are to be evaluated and combined into such a network. The communication should run, first and foremost, on top of a combination of WiFi, copper and fibre optics, but we also consider Bluetooth, [http://www.cringely.com/2014/05/15/nsa-help-kill-uwb/ Ultra Wideband (UWB)], [http://ronja.twibright.com/installations.php red light], ukw and satellite uplinks - shortly all allowed frequencies and ways.
:; decentralized: in other words: distributed or p2p. There is no server through which the main communication streams have to go through and which could collect data to de-anonymize other nodes.
# The solution is '''holistic''', which means it encompasses all layers of the OSI model, i.e. from the strongly delay and packet loss tolerant physical layer through an automatically configured, encrypted and anonymizing middle layer to services on the upper layer such as social networking, P2P transfer or generic data storage. However it can also be structured in a different way.
* [https://projectmeshnet.org '''cjdns, Hyperboria & the Project Meshnet''']: encrypted IPv6 network using public-key cryptography for address allocation and a distributed hash table for routing
* [https://gnunet.org/ '''Gnunet''']: Secure, fully decentralized P2P network, extensible component-oriented framework, a possible future Internet architecture.
* [https://briarproject.org/ '''Briar''']: Delay-tolerant network for secure messaging (one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many), capable of operating over a diverse mixture of transports including Tor, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and portable storage devices
* [http://www.secushare.org/ '''Secushare''']: Distributed pubsub and multicast architecture on top of GNUnet intended to provide advanced communication capabilities and distributed social networking
* [http://michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com/projects/cor/index.html '''COR''' Connection oriented routing]: a layer 3+4 mesh protocol for zero administration networks, implemented as a linux kernel patch
* [http://qmp.cat/Home<nowiki/> '''Quick Mesh Project''' (qMp)]: Firmware for embedded network devices based on OpenWRT Linux operating system
* [http://maidsafe.net/ '''Maidsafe''']: GNUnet-like Internet replacement stack, focused on distributed data storage, replication and high latency interaction
* [http://rina.tssg.org/ '''RINA'''] Another internet stack
* [http://invisible.im/ '''Invisible''']: filetransfer and conversation without trace/evidence
* [https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs '''Tahoe-LAFS'''] high latency tool: decentralized cloud storage system. It distributes data across multiple servers. Iff some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire file store continues to function correctly
* [https://github.com/ssbc/secure-scuttlebutt '''Secure Scuttlebutt'''] high latency tool
* [http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/index_de.html '''Retroshare''']: Secure communication. Chat, mail, forums,telephony and filesharing based on a Friend-to-Friend(F2F) network
* [https://www.tox.im/ '''Tox''']: Skype Replacement: encrypted Peer-to-Peer Messenger/Phone and Video
* [http://ball.askemos.org/ '''BALL''']: autonomous, persistent execution environment to realize integrity protection of data and operations, authenticated timestamps, compliance auditing
* [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox '''FreedomBox''']: Project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for private, personal, communications.
We presume a global active attacker that does automated intrusion such as traffic [http://7ywdkxkpi7kk55by.onion/trac/wiki/DeanonymizingTheInternet shaping]. We draw the line before targeted operations.
We hope to '''unite''' the different '''forces''' that aim for more privacy and security such as the older and upcoming software projects, scientists, activists and others.
* [http://7ywdkxkpi7kk55by.onion/trac/wiki/HardwareTypesToBeR Finding hardware] and [http://7ywdkxkpi7kk55by.onion/trac/ticket/39 software] for the EDN testbed