{% extends "common/base.j2" %}
{% block body_content %}
<!-- Jumbotron -->
<div class="jumbotron">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-6">
<center><img src="{{ url('static/images/gnunet-logo-dark-text.png') }}" alt="GNUnet" /></center>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-6">
<p>
{% trans %}
GNUnet is a new network protocol stack for building secure, distributed,
and privacy-preserving applications. With strong roots in academic
<a href="https://bib.gnunet.org">research</a>, our goal is to replace the
<a href="https://secushare.org/broken-internet">old insecure Internet</a>
protocol stack.
{% endtrans %}
<br><br>
{% trans %}
GNUnet is typically run as an
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_network">overlay network</a>
on top of the existing Internet infrastructure forming the
basis of a hybrid
<a href="architecture.html">peer-to-peer mesh and relay backbone</a>
for applications to run on. It could just as well be run
independently of the Internet, over
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_layer">dedicated radio and cable</a>.
{% endtrans %}
<br><br>
{% trans %}
GNUnet is made for an free and open society: It's a self-organizing
network and it is
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>
as in freedom. GNUnet puts you in control of your data. You
determine which data to share with whom, and you're not
pressured to accept compromises.
{% endtrans %}
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container text-center">
<p>
<a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" href="#about">
{% trans %}
About
{% endtrans %}
</a>
<a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" href="install.html">
{% trans %}
Install
{% endtrans %}
</a>
<a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" href="engage.html">
{% trans %}
Engage
{% endtrans %}
</a>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-fluid c_acronym link-white">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="container text-center">
<h1><a name="about">{% trans %}The Internet of tomorrow needs GNUnet today{% endtrans %}</a></h1>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-4">
<section>
<h3>{{ _("Imagine...") }}</h3>
<p>
{% trans %}
The conventional Internet is currently like a system of roads
with deep potholes and highwaymen all over the place. Even if
you still can use the roads (e.g. send emails, or browse
websites) your vehicle might get hijacked, damaged, or long
arms might reach into its back and steal your items (data) to
use it against you and sell it to others - while you can't
even notice the thievery nor accuse and hold the scroungers
accountable.
<!-- Proposal from Fabian Gerlach: The conventional Internet is currently like a system of roads
with deep potholes and surveillance cameras all over the place.
Even if you still can use the roads (e.g. send emails, or browse
websites) your vehicle might gets damaged. And the surveillance
cameras will create a movement profile about your life: They
recognize your car license plate, track you everywhere you drive,
and save this information in a central data base.
- evaluations:
- The database is not central - III
- Question/Suggestion: Got it, but maybe it's fixable. What about then talking about "central data bases"? Would this change make it correct and pave the way for a better solution?
- "The conventional Internet is currently like a system of roads with deep potholes and surveillance cameras all over the place. Even if you still can use the roads (e.g. send emails, or browse websites) your vehicle might gets damaged. And the surveillance cameras will create a movement profile about your life: They recognize your car license plate, track you everywhere you drive, and save this information in central data bases."
- thief is much more "dangerous" than "just being tracked", esp for a "normal" person
- Contra: But it doesn't happen that often. Surveillance metapher says "it's happening right now to you, it's an all day situation", thief metapher "maybe one day things will turn out bad for you and you get affected by thievery, just like maybe one day you become one of the few victims of credit card thievery".
- Theft analogy fits - II
- Copying your personal data and using it is called "identity theft"; here it is appropriate as it is about private data
-->
{% endtrans %}
</section>
</p>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
<section>
<h3>{{ _("The Internet is broken") }}</h3>
<p>
{% trans %}
Protocols from Ethernet and IP to BGP and X.509 PKI are
insecure by default: protecting against address forgery,
routers learning metadata, or choosing trustworthy CAs is
nontrivial and sometimes impossible.
<!-- Proposal from Fabian Gerlach: The Internet is not designed with security in mind:
The network generally learns too much about users; it has insecure
defaults and high complexity; and it is centralized. That makes it very
vulnerable for multiple attacks massively threatening our freedom.
- evaluations:
- First part:
- Not sure if the new text makes it better - at this stage we are still aiming at techies that should know what IP and BGP is, and therefore get a clearer picture, I believe.
- Current tech depth is better for making our case
- we cannot simply claim "it's all broken" without at least giving a rough idea of what we mean by that.
- Current tech depth is better for understanding - III
- Even people who don't know IP or BGP can at least take away the message that we have _specific_ concerns, which is important. After all, not understanding those specifics doesn't harm understanding the rest of the text.
- Got it. Especially the sub title of this section, "The Internet is broken", does the trick
-->
{% endtrans %}
</p>
<p>
{% trans %}
GNUnet provides
<a href="https://www.w3.org/2014/strint/papers/65.pdf">privacy by design</a>,
improving addressing, routing, naming and
content distribution in a technically robust manner - as
opposed to ad-hoc designs in place today.
<!-- Proposal from fabian gerlach: GNUnet is built
<a href="https://www.w3.org/2014/strint/papers/65.pdf">"privacy by design"</> and
"distributed by design". This improves addressing, routing, naming and
content distribution in a technically robust manner.
- Second part:
- Is "distributed by design" any existing term? Then I'd add your change.
- Not really, but I'd not mind establishing that term, it rings nicely with "privacy by design" ;-) - II
- Suggestion: All things start with someone just doing it. Let's make it a thing.
- I would remove the quotes around distributed by design.
- Yeah, that's also a possibility, but then the "privacy by design" in the sentence should be treated the same way.
-->
{% endtrans %}
</p>
</section>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
<section>
<h3>{{ _("Decentralization is hard") }}</h3>
<p>
{% trans %}
<!-- replaced with Proposal from Fabian Gerlach:
It seems as if every other distributed or P2P project
develops its own library stack, covering transports, stream
muxing, discovery and others. This divides effort and
multiplies bug count.--> (old one)
Instead of sharing common components and tools for building P2P systems, every P2P project seems to re-invent the wheel. That highens effort and number of vulnerabilities. (new one)
{% endtrans %}
<p>
{% trans %}
GNUnet is a metadata-preserving foundation for your
application, covering areas from addressing to reliable
bidirectional Axolotl-encrypted channels, with advanced
routing. Our work is based on continuous research spanning
almost two decades.
{% endtrans %}
</p>
</section>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-4">
<section>
<h3>{{ _("Metadata is exposed") }}</h3>
<p>
{% trans %}
Your metadata is just as revealing as the actual content; and it gets exposed on the internet.<br>
Even though transport encryption is increasingly being
deployed on the Internet, it still reveals data that can
threaten democracy: the identities of senders and receivers,
the times, frequency and the volume of communication are all
still revealed.<br>
<!-- Looks like a weak argumentation to me:
which <a
href="https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/websitefingerprinting-pets2016.pdf">enables
reverse-engineering pages visited via website
fingerprinting</a>.
-->
GNUnet
<a href="https://secushare.org/anonymity">addresses</a>
these concerns with perfect forward secrecy via ephemeral
public key addressing, fixed packet size to hinder traffic
analysis, layered encryption, Sybil-resistant routing, and
more.
{% endtrans %}
</p>
</section>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
<section>
<h3>{{ _("Freedoms are not respected") }}</h3>
<p>
{% trans %}
Today, monitoring increasingly centralized infrastructure,
proprietary implementations, traffic shapers and firewalls
restrict all of the
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">essential freedoms</a>
to various degrees.
{% endtrans %}
</p>
<p>
{% trans %}
GNUnet gives users freedoms to securely access information
("run" the network), to study all aspects of the network's
operation ("access the code"), to distribute information
("copy"), as well as the freedom to deploy new applications
("modify").
{% endtrans %}
</p>
</section>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
<section>
<h3>{{ _("Learn more about GNUnet") }}</h3>
<p>
{% trans %}
If you want to know more about the GNUnet please continue reading
the <a href="about.html">about page</a>. There are much more ressources,
such as the <a href="https://docs.gnunet.org">main handbook /
reference manual</a>, a <a href="https://bib.gnunet.org/">bibliography</a>
and <a href="https://gnunet.org/en/video.html">videos</a>.
{% endtrans %}
</p>
<p>
{% trans %}
You are very welcome to <a href="https://gnunet.org/en/engage.html">
get engaged into the conversation</a>,
<a href="https://gnunet.org/en/install.html">install GNUnet</a>,
<a href="https://gnunet.org/en/use.html">use it</a> and
<a href="https://gnunet.org/en/contribute.html">contribute</a>. <br>
Be aware that this project is still in an early alpha stage when it comes
to software – its not an easy task to rewrite the whole Internet!
{% endtrans %}
</p>
</section>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="container text-center">
<h1>
{% trans %}
Featured Applications
{% endtrans %}
</h1>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-4">
<section>
<h3>{{ _("GNU Taler (Alpha)") }}</h3>
<p>
{% trans %}
<a href="https://taler.net/">GNU Taler</a>
is a new privacy-preserving electronic payment system.
Payments are cryptographically
secured and are confirmed within milliseconds with
extremely low transaction costs.
{% endtrans %}
</p>
</section>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
<section>
<h3>{{ _("The GNU Name System") }}</h3>
<p>
{% trans %}
The <a href="use.html#gns">GNU Name System (GNS)</a>
is a fully decentralized replacement
for the Domain Name System (DNS). Instead of using a
hierarchy, GNS uses a directed graph. Naming conventions
are similar to DNS, but queries and replies are private even
with respect to peers providing the answers. The integrity of
records and privacy of look-ups is cryptographically secured.
<!-- Too technical: GNS integrates
a robust, efficient and instant key revocation mechanism. -->
{% endtrans %}
</p>
</section>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
<section>
<h3>{{ _("re:claimID") }}</h3>
<p>
{% trans %}
<a href="https://reclaim-identity.io/">re:claimID</a>
is a decentralized Identity Provider (IdP) service built in top of the
GNU Name System. It allows users to securely share personal information
with websites using standardized protocols (OpenID Connect).
{% endtrans %}
</p>
</section>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-4">
<section>
<h3>{{ _("Filesharing (Alpha)") }}</h3>
<p>
{% trans %}
GNUnet <a href="use.html#fs">filesharing</a>
is an application that aims to provide
censorship-resistant, anonymous filesharing. The publisher is
empowered to make a gradual choice between performance and anonymity.
{% endtrans %}
</p>
</section>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
<section>
<h3>{{ _("Conversation (Pre-Alpha)") }}</h3>
<p>
{% trans %}
GNUnet conversation is an application that provides secure
voice communication in a fully decentralized way by employing
GNUnet for routing and transport.
{% endtrans %}
</p>
</section>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container-fluid c_acronym link-white">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="container text-center">
<h1>
{% trans %}
Upcoming Applications
{% endtrans %}
</h1>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-6">
<section>
<h3>{{ _("secushare") }}</h3>
<p>
{% trans %}
<a href="https://secushare.org/">secushare</a>
is creating a decentralized social networking
application on top of GNUnet. Using overlay
multicast and the extensible PSYC protocol, notifications are
distributed end-to-end encrypted to authorized recipients only.
{% endtrans %}
</p>
</section>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-6">
<section>
<h3>{{ _("pretty Easy privacy") }}</h3>
<p>
{% trans %}
<a href="https://pep.foundation/">pretty Easy privacy</a> (p≡p)
is creating a usable end-to-end encrypted e-mail solution using
opportunistic key exchange.
p≡p will use GNUnet to protect metadata and exploit new
cryptographic protocols to verify keys.
{% endtrans %}
</p>
</section>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="container text-center">
<h1>{{ _("News") }}<a name="news"></a></h1>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-12">
{% include "template/news.html.j2.inc" %}
</div>
</div>
</div> <!-- /container -->
{% endblock body_content %}