[amatus]

Here's a few things GNUnet replaces and why it's better:

Bittorrent is replaced by GNUnet "filesharing", it's trackerless, it provides a search function, users can adjust their level of anonymity for publishing, downloading, and searching.

DNS is replaced by "GNS", it covers the "decentralized" and "secure" points in Zooko's triangle, it a pet name system.

VPN is replaced by GNUnet VPN, which is just VPN over GNUnet so it can take advantage of the p2p network.

TCP/UDP/SPDY/QUIC is replaced by "cadet", takes advantage of the p2p network.

There's also a DHT.

And there's lots of other stuff that's in-progress.

[ng0]

We should maybe include a "GNUnet in 5 minutes or less" on the website. The old LEGO analogy is nice, and lynX did a great comparison here: https://secushare.org/img/stack-comparison.png We don't really need the ISO OSI model here, but even this can be added, as we've already used it throughout the years to compare to the GNUnet stack.

[ng0]

I think somewhere we mentioned before that gnunet does not require ISPs and IXPs, but using them today is the de-facto default state.

[no_identd]

May I draw your attention to my old comment here, as well as (more importantly), the entire thread of even older comments /it/ links to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959687

Which I shall also link to directly, but the above also has some relevance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19864808

See especially here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867532

And here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867467

[ng0]

Please give me a summary of what you intend to express here. I just don't have the time to cherry-pick the information here.