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ShiftyNet is a family of applications built around a common networking core. The goals of the ShiftyNet Project are as follows:

• Create a global and secure network on which published information cannot be censored.
• Integrate with end-user applications at the IP layer.
• Provide to end-users advanced networking functionality traditionally reserved for administrators, including secure proxies, channel bonding, virtual private networking, and a distributed peer-to-peer file system.

ShiftyNet will be the foundation of many future commercial projects for me. I have released it into the Public Domain to avoid any licensing conflicts with my employer's code. The ShiftyNet code is anyone's -- go to it. The official ShiftyNet Project will remain to complete the ShiftyNet network and harden the code for enterprise computing applications.

Many excellent products are available today to provide some of the eventual functionality of ShiftyNet:

FreedomNet
FreedomNet is primarily a network of secure routers that protect the IP layer, but it also includes advanced application-layer protection in the client (cookie stripping, heuristic Javascript checks, anonymous email, and more). The best all-around protection. Unfortunately, the FreedomNet network has suffered economically and may not be available by the time you read this.

FreeNet
FreeNet is a distributed file-sharing system analogous to the HTTP protocol. It is an excellent choice for censor-free, distributed publishing and can scale to handle a huge data store. However, it does not currently integrate with non-publishing software at the IP layer (e.g. irc, talk).

IPSec
IPSec is a collection of IPv6 security enhancements retro-fitted to IPv4. It defines ways of establishing encrypted sockets between Internet hosts for (Virtual) Private Networking. See the RFCs for documentation.

ssh
ssh is a secure replacement for the rsh suite of Unix utilities. It provides encrypted network sessions that can be built upon to provide Private Networking, secure file transmission, etc.

Occasionally I release milestone drivers, primarily as a motivation to get the code cleaned up. Most of these drivers are ANCIENT, but here they are anyway. Note that some are from before the great renaming (ShadowNet --> ShiftyNet).