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Hey guys, long time no see.

I was wondering if anybody could identify an application for me. I remember using it a year or so ago, but I forgot the name of it.

IIRC, the application was a kind of client hosted interweb. The application would tie into the "cloud", which was a network of all users logged on to this application. The network hosted a variety of websites and files which, upon viewing them, you would then become a short term host for the files for everyone else to view. All connections were encrypted, achieving the primary goal of application.

I remember the philosophy behind the creation of the application was to stop prying eyes seeing everything you are doing, i.e. to encrypt all data being transferred.

The reason I came across it in the first place, was that one of my computing teachers came across it while we were studying public-key encryption. Neither of us could remember the name of the program.

Not sure if that's at all helpful to anyone who knows the program, but it's as much as I can remember right now.

Thanks for reading!
Duncey.

Bittorrent?

Sounds to me like... Freenet?

Was it, by any chance, this?

http://freenetproject.org/

Haha! Overlapping posts ;¬)

It's not what you're looking for, but Tor might also be something interesting to look at considering you and your teacher's study. You don't become a short term host for the content by using the network (although you can become an endpoint), but the premise is similar: stop prying eyes.

Actually, Tor is what led me to Freenet originally, as I recall; about two years ago or something like that.

Thank you so much guys! It was Freenet. Although, Tor does look like an interesting project. Looks like I got some nice reading for the next few weeks


Thanks for all the help guys,
Duncey.