Entropy (English)

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Entropy is a censor-resistent distributed (peer-to-peer) data store. It is similar to Freenet. Entropy is written in C and by using your Browser you can use an anonymous p2p Web.

Links

Official Entropy website buy term papers

Subjective experiences, comparison with other networks

As this is written in C, it runs pretty fast. Especially the startup procedure is very well done, it starts up smooth and fast although actually using a lot of ressources, especially RAM.

The configuration is easy, and you can set many things like incoming port, Bandwidth limits, Data Store size etc.

Entropy's web-interface looks nice and is informative while being easy at the same time. Especially coloring makes it clearly laid out.

Opening the pages is like in every p2p data store difficult, but often you can get the most things if you wait long enough.

Important to note is the usage of RAM: It consumes really much RAM. It opens up many processes, each at something around ~6MB - ~1xMB. That means, even on a 512MB machine the RAM consumation is noticable. At the same time however, it starts and closes as fast as a standard Java application- it is also as fast or faster, but it uses more actual system resources, without hogging.

If you are behind an unconfigured Router (NAT), you can't do much. If you however free any port, it runs well. It also does not waste much bandwidth, especially if you are idle.