Turtle F2F

Turtle was a free anonymous peer-to-peer network project being developed at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, involving professor Andrew Tanenbaum. It is not developed anymore. Like other anonymous P2P software, it allows users to share files and otherwise communicate without fear of legal sanctions or censorship. Turtle's claims of anonymity are backed by two research papers provided in the "external links" below.

Turtle F2F
Developer(s)Petr Matejka
Bogdan Popescu
Initial release2004 (v0.0.2)
Stable release1.5 (2006) [±]
Written inC++
Operating systemLinux
Available inEnglish
TypeAnonymous P2P / friend-to-friend
LicenseGNU GPL
Websitewww.turtle4privacy.org

Architecture

Technically, Turtle is a friend-to-friend (F2F) network - a special type of peer-to-peer network in which all your communication goes only to your friends, and then to their friends, and so on, to the ultimate destination.

The basic idea behind Turtle is to build a P2P overlay on top of pre-existing trust relationships among Turtle users. Each user acts as node in the overlay by running a copy of the Turtle client software. Unlike existing P2P networks, Turtle does not allow arbitrary nodes to connect and exchange information. Instead, each user establishes secure and authenticated channels with a limited number of other nodes controlled by people he or she trusts (friends).

In the Turtle overlay, both queries and results move hop by hop; the net result is that information is only exchanged between people that trust each other and is always encrypted. Consequently, a snooper or adversary has no way to determine who is requesting / providing information, and what that information is. Given this design, a Turtle network offers a number of useful security properties, such as confined damage in case of node compromise, and resilience against denial of service attacks.

gollark: Actually, hold on, slight tweak...
gollark: It's... kind of inelegant, but something like this should work:```pythonimport threadingimport timeauthorized = Falsedef thing(): if correct_passcode_entered(): authorized = Truethreading.Thread(target=thing).start()time.sleep(5)if not authorized: sound_alarm()```
gollark: You want it to sound an alarm if someone doesn't input the authorization in time, right?
gollark: <@186486131565527040> You could probably just multithread it.
gollark: I can help a bit I guess...

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