A Cypherpunk's Library

Measuring Freenet in the Wild

Stefanie Roos et al.

2014 · 20 pages

An empirical study of Freenet, the decentralized, censorship-resistant publication system: an extensive measurement campaign and code analysis that maps why content is slow and often unreachable. The authors find the topology-control mechanism is suboptimal for routing, and that Freenet's several tens of thousands of users stay online far longer than peers on other P2P networks. By Stefanie Roos, Benjamin Schiller, Stefan Hacker, and Thorsten Strufe; presented at PETS 2014.