The foundation of Peergos is a peer-to-peer encrypted global filesystem with fine-grained access control designed to be resistant to surveillance of data content or friendship graphs.
It has a secure messenger, an encrypted email client and bridge, and a totally private and secure social network, where users are in control of who sees what (executed cryptographically).
This is free and open source software.
Aims of the project:
- To allow individuals to securely and privately store files in a peer to peer network which has no central node and is generally difficult to disrupt or surveil.
- To allow secure sharing of files with other users of the network without visible meta-data (who shares with who).
- Allow web apps to be loaded and run directly from Peergos in a sandbox that prevents data exfiltration and with user granted permissions.
- To have a beautiful user interface that any computer or mobile user can understand.
- To be independent of the central TLS Certificate Authority trust architecture.
- Self hostable – A user should be able to easily run Peergos on a machine in their home and get their own Peergos storage space, and social communication platform from it.
- A secure web interface.
Website: github.com/Peergos/Peergos
Support:
Developer: Peergos
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Peergos is written in Java. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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