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Hyphanet in "darknet" mode, and is relatively easy to block, as it does have
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some central servers ("seed nodes").
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Hyphanet has many unsolved problems, and is still experimental. Our objective
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Our objective
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for Hyphanet is to build a global friend-to-friend darknet, which would be
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extremely difficult to block, and would provide very strong anonymity and
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censorship resistance. This will require further work on Hyphanet,
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### Is Hyphanet legal?
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We don't currently know of any prosecutions for merely using Hyphanet.
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We don't currently know of any prosecutions for merely using Hyphanet,
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though there have been cases where [false statistics](/the-discredited-levine-2017-approach-is-still-used.html) were used in the US
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to claim that people used it for accessing illegal material.
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Some people claim that the [DADVSI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DADVSI)
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makes Hyphanet illegal in France; the German data retention law might have
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required logging, but [was struck down](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention#Germany).
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and may eventually force ISPs to block peer to peer networks (but right now
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Hyphanet works fine in France and we have many French users!).
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Technically, Hyphanet 0.7 has some minimal defences against blocking; the
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Technically, Hyphanet 0.7 has some defences against blocking; the
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protocol is relatively hard to identify (we are working on ["transport
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plugins"](https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Transport_plugins), which would
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[make it much harder to detect Hyphanet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography).
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secretly distribute a trojan'ed build, because Hyphanet is open source,
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numerous people have contributed code to it, so legally we have to give you
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the source code, including that for any government mandated back doors -
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which wouldn't be secret for long! If this happened it is likely that [
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Hyphanet Project Incorporated](donate.html), the non-profit organisation that
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runs this website and handles donations, would shut down, but the Hyphanet
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network itself would live on just fine, the only difference being not being
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able to pay full time developers as easily.
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which wouldn't be secret for long! If this happened, core developers may
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have to leave the project, but the Hyphanet
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network itself would live on just fine.
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See [net neutrality](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality) and
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[the EFF](https://www.eff.org/) or equivalent organisations in your country for
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be a problem on a cheap or shared connection. And of course running it at
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work could get you into trouble too, unless it's for work purposes!
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### What about copyright?
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There are some excellent thoughts on this subject on the [Philosophy](
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about.html#philosophy) page. Specific copyright-related laws may be a
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problem, please read [Is Hyphanet legal?](#is-freenet-legal) and [Is Hyphanet blocked by
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national firewalls?](#is-freenet-blocked-by-national-firewalls).
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### What about child porn, offensive content or terrorism?
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While most people wish that child pornography and terrorism did not exist,
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### I don't want my node to be used to harbor child porn, offensive content, or terrorism. What can I do?
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This is a problem that sadly any censorship-resistance tool faces.
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If the capacity to remove content existed, it might only be used to remove things one finds offensive, but it could be used to remove anything.
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If the capacity existed to remove content people access, it might not only be used to remove things one finds offensive, but it could be used to remove anything.
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From a technological point of view one cannot have censorship-resistance with exceptions.
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Hyphanet is merely a tool that by itself doesn't do anything to promote offensive content.
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How people choose to use the tool is their sole responsibility.
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As a communication medium, Hyphanet cannot be considered responsible for what people use it for — just like Internet Service Providers, telecoms, or postal services cannot be held responsible for their users either.
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Note that files are encrypted and split into pieces.
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They are not stored on your machine in their entirety.
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Your instance of Hyphanet will likely have very few encrypted pieces of a given file, if any.
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These pieces cannot be used as parts of the file they were made from without additional information.
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Reassembling a file requires knowing both what pieces to use and the key to decrypt them, neither of which is included with each piece.
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Since content that does not get accessed disappears from the network, the best way to fight content you don’t want to see on Hyphanet is never to access such content.
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### How about encryption export restrictions?
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The Hyphanet Project has notified the US authorities that it will be exporting
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The Freenet Project has notified the US authorities that it will be exporting
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crypto. As long as your country doesn't prohibit the use of encryption you
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are fine. Further, there is now an exception in the export laws for software
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doing exactly what Hyphanet does! However, Oracle limits the encryption strength
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### How do I use this software? I downloaded it, but when I run it there's no GUI.
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Fred (the Hyphanet REference Daemon) runs as a daemon, or service, in the
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Fred (the Freenet REference Daemon) runs as a daemon, or service, in the
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background. You normally talk to it through a Hyphanet client. One built-in
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client is fproxy, which lets you talk to Hyphanet with a web browser. Hyphanet
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should have installed a Browse Hyphanet shortcut on the desktop and/or the
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### Is Hyphanet searchable?
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Yes, there are a few different search mechanisms. To search the Hyphanet web
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(freesites), you should be able to just use the search box on the homepage,
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or go to Search Hyphanet on the Browse submenu. If it's not there, go to the
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Plugins page under Configuration, and load the Library plugin. Alternatively,
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Frost and Thaw also provide searching for messages and files. Note that
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searching on Hyphanet is a good deal more difficult than on other networks
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because of Hyphanet's different architecture and design goals.
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Yes, there are a few different search mechanisms. The easiest is to
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open one of the index pages and use the search function from your
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browser. searching on Hyphanet is a good deal more difficult than on
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other networks because of Hyphanet's different architecture and design
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goals.
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### How do I get Hyphanet working with a Firewall/NAT?
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No, but it is preferred. You can run the software and test it from a
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"transient" connection (e.g. dial up/mobile modem), but for the network as a
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whole to be most useful, we will need as many permanent nodes as possible (
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most cable modem or DSL setups are sufficiently "permanent" for this). A
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later version of Hyphanet may take better advantage of transient nodes.
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most cable modem or DSL setups are sufficiently "permanent" for this).
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### Why does Hyphanet only download 1 or 2 files at a time?
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### Why is Hyphanet implemented in Java?
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Opinions differ about the choice of Java for the reference implementation of
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Hyphanet (even among the core developers). [Ian Clarke](https://wiki.freenetproject.org/People#ian-clarke) and
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several other developers are Java proponents and the choice for Java was
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made. Even if everybody could be convinced to switch to a different language
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Hyphanet (even among the core developers). The choice for Java was
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made early on. Even if everybody could be convinced to switch to a different language
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reimplementing the current Hyphanet protocol would be quite a big task,
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and take up a significant amount of time, while there is only a limited
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amount of developer-time available. Flame wars on the development list about
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