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DOWNLOAD

Download and install Hyphanet:

 * For Windows
 * For macOS, GNU/Linux & POSIX

Hyphanet is free and open source software available under GPLv2+. The source
code is on GitHub.


WINDOWS

Download and run the installer (gpg signature; keyring)

Download Hyphanet for Windows

It will automatically install Hyphanet and other required components for you.
When done, your default browser will automatically open up to Hyphanet's
web-based user interface.



Hyphanet requires Windows 8.1 or later.

Free code signing provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation.

Note: Once a Windows version reaches end of life, we do not guarantee any longer
support, or the fact that Hyphanet will install and/or work in such
environments. However, it is not mandatory that Hyphanet will not work on an
older Windows OS. We always strongly recommend you to take security very
seriously, and run up to date software that receives security updates, to be on
the safe side.


GNU/LINUX & POSIX

Get the Java-based installer (gpg signature; keyring).

Download Hyphanet for GNU/Linux & POSIX

Run the file with Java, then follow the installer:



You need to have a recent Java Runtime Environment (JRE), for example OpenJDK
which can be obtained via your package manager or from https://adoptopenjdk.net.

Java version 9 or higher is required.

If there are problems, use the command line. This requires wget which can be
installed with a package manager, such as sudo apt-get install wget on Debian or
Ubuntu.

wget 'https://www.draketo.de/dateien/freenet/build01498/new_installer_offline_1498.jar' -O new_installer_offline.jar;
java -jar new_installer_offline.jar;


To install on a headless system, or if you get fontconfig problems, use the
-console option and follow the prompts:

java -jar new_installer_offline.jar -console;


Note: We would love to have packages for most distributions. There is a package
for Gentoo, and a Debian package. The debian Package also works on WSL2 (but not
WSL1). If you would like to help, it would be much appreciated!

Note: On some systems (including FreeBSD and OpenBSD) the wrapper does not work,
unless you install additional software packages and configure it. You can start
Hyphanet manually there, but you then don’t have auto-updates. After
installation you find the relevant classpath arguments in wrapper.conf. Then
call java directly with a command like java -Xmx1500m -Xss512k
-Dnetworkaddress.cache.ttl=0 -Dnetworkaddress.cache.negative.ttl=0
--add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens=java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED -cp
bcprov-jdk15on-1.59.jar:freenet-ext.jar:freenet.jar:jna-4.5.2.jar:jna-platform-4.5.2.jar:pebble-3.1.5.jar:unbescape-1.1.6.RELEASE.jar:slf4j-api-1.7.25.jar
freenet.node.NodeStarter

Note: Apple Silicon needs library updates to work, so you’ll have to download
and use a new version of jna….jar and jna-platform….jar in the command above.


RELEASE MIRROR

Our releases are provided via Lysator. You can try the http mirror or the tor
mirror provided by Lysator.

Alternatively you can use the github release.


MIRRORED INSTALLATION

If you have a working Hyphanet installation directory that you have mirrored
from one Unix machine to another (e.g. via rsync or unison), enabling the
mirrored installation is not difficult. Nothing in a Hyphanet installation cares
about its host's IP address; it can't, or Hyphanet would fail on machines that
get IP addresses from a DHCP pool.

All you actually need to do is tell the system you've mirrored to that it should
start the Hyphanet proxy daemon for you on boot. Do crontab -l on the source
machine, find the line that is tagged "FREENET AUTOSTART" and add that to your
crontab on the mirrored machine.

However: each installation has a unique identity key generated at installation
time. If you try to run two instances with the same identity at the same time,
both proxy demons will become confused and upset. Don't do this!


USING HYPHANET

Please try the step by step guide to setting up Hyphanet and various Hyphanet
apps, especially if installing on macOS. We are not responsible for unofficial
third party apps it recommends (including FMS), but many Hyphanet users and
developers use them.


FIREWALLS AND ROUTERS

Hyphanet should work fine with most routers, but if you are having problems and
you have a firewall or router, click here for some info.


SO IT'S RUNNING, WHAT DO I DO?

When the installer closes, it should open a browser window pointing to the
first-time wizard. Here you can configure basic settings, and then start using
Hyphanet. You can access Hyphanet later on via the system tray menu ( bottom
right on the screen), or use the Browse Hyphanet shortcut on the desktop and/or
start menu. If it doesn't work, open http://127.0.0.1:8888/ in your web browser.

For best security you should use a separate browser for Hyphanet, preferably in
privacy mode. On Windows, the system tray menu will try to use Chrome in
incognito mode if possible. Internet Explorer does not work well with Hyphanet,
Firefox and Opera are widely used.

If you know anyone running Hyphanet, you can improve your security and help to
build a robust network by connecting to their node. First, open the Add a friend
page. You and your friend should each download their "node reference". Send the
file to the other person, and add his node reference using the form at the
bottom of the page. When both are added, your friend's node should show up on
the Friends page, probably as "CONNECTED" or "BUSY". You can set a name for your
node on the config page to make it easier to see who it is. Only add nodes run
by people you actually know, whether online or offline, as adding total
strangers harms performance and does not improve security much (they could be
the bad guys!).


SO I'M CONNECTED, WHAT DO I DO?

Hyphanet itself includes anonymous websites ("freesites"), filesharing,
searching, and more, but you can also use third party applications for chat,
filesharing, to help you upload freesites, etc.

The Hyphanet Social Networking Guide explains how to set up the main third party
tools, including email, forums and micro-blogging (Sone, a bit like twitter).


IT DOESN'T WORK, NOW WHAT?

If you have problems installing or running Hyphanet, please see the knowledge
base, FAQ, chat, or mailing list.


HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

Generally a 1GHz processor and 1GB of RAM should be fine. Hyphanet will run on
smaller systems, but it uses at least 128MB of RAM, so unless the system does
nothing else it will struggle in less than 512MB. However, the processor is less
of a problem, people have been known to run it on 400MHz Pentium 2's or ATOM's,
although downloads and browsing would be slow.

Hyphanet will use a portion of your disk for storing data, you can configure
this to any size from 100MB upwards, but we recommend at least 1GB. Hyphanet
also uses disk space for your downloads. Hyphanet's memory usage is
approximately 256MB plus 400kB for every 2GB of datastore.

On 64-bit Windows, we will install a 32-bit Java Virtual Machine because of
limitations of the Java Service Wrapper.


UPGRADING

Hyphanet provides an upgrade-over-Hyphanet mechanism: It will keep itself up to
date automatically from other Hyphanet nodes, and this will normally work even
if it is unable to route to them due to them being too new. This is anonymous
and secure, and we recommend people use it. However, if something is severely
broken, you can upgrade your node manually from our servers:

 * Windows users can upgrade to the latest-stable Hyphanet release by running
   update.cmd in the Hyphanet directory.
 * macOS, GNU/Linux, or other POSIX users may upgrade by running the update.sh
   shell script in the Hyphanet directory.


ADD FRIENDS (OR CONNECT TO STRANGERS)

If you know other people who also use Hyphanet, you can add them as Friends.
This will make you safer against attacks on Hyphanet Project infrastructure (the
seednodes).

Once you are connected to 5 or more friends, you can enable high security mode.
In high security mode Hyphanet will only connect to your friends. This makes
your usage of Hyphanet almost undetectable, but you are still able to access the
rest of the network through your friends' friends friends ....

You don't have to add friends right now. If you use a "low" or "normal" security
level Hyphanet will automatically connect to strangers and will work just fine.
However, your (or someone else's) government may be able to find out who you are
with enough effort. Be careful!


VERIFYING SIGNATURES

Download the Hyphanet Project signing keys and import them into your keyring:

    pub   2048R/0xEAC5EBF07AA9C2A3 2013-04-29
          Key fingerprint = DBB7 7338 3BC3 49C9 5203  ED91 EAC5 EBF0 7AA9 C2A3

    pub   4096R/0x00100D897EDBA5E0 2013-09-21 [expired: 2016-09-08]
          Key fingerprint = 0046 195B 2DCA B176 D394  09CD 0010 0D89 7EDB A5E0
    uid                  Steve Dougherty (operhiem1 Release Signing Key) <steve@asksteved.com>
    sub   4096R/0x7BF0F7B36AC8B380 2013-09-21 [expired: 2016-09-15]

    pub   4096R/0xFF24CA421946AA94 2013-09-24 [expires: 2018-09-23]
          Key fingerprint = B76D 4AA7 96D8 403E ED78  C9F9 FF24 CA42 1946 AA94
    uid                  Matthew Toseland (2013-2018 key, higher key length) <matthew@toselandcs.co.uk>
    uid                  Matthew Toseland (2013-2018 key, higher key length) <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>
    sub   4096R/0xF877E62895C42009 2013-09-24 [expires: 2018-09-23]

    pub   4096R/0xB67C19E817A8D846 2016-01-02 [expires: 2018-01-03]
          Key fingerprint = 5D77 D9A4 2E28 0F5A FF8F  2EBF B67C 19E8 17A8 D846
    uid                  Stephen Oliver <steve@infincia.com>
    sub   4096R/0x9BCDD1614041F59E 2016-01-02 [expires: 2018-01-03]
    sub   4096R/0x1652EBA5AC1BB386 2016-01-02 [expires: 2018-01-03]
    sub   4096R/0x38A62E479684F2F2 2016-01-02 [expires: 2018-01-03]

    pub   4096R/0xB41A6047FD6C57F9 2017-02-23
          Key fingerprint = B30C 3D91 069F 81EC FEFE  D0B1 B41A 6047 FD6C 57F9
    uid                  Arne Babenhauserheide (freenet releases) <arne_bab@web.de>
    uid                  Arne Babenhauserheide (ArneBab) <arne_bab@web.de>



CODE SIGNING POLICY

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Foundation.


PRIVACY POLICY

This program will not transfer any information to other networked systems unless
specifically requested by the user or the person installing or operating it.

Choosing a normal or low network security level (opennet) will cause Hyphanet to
connect to seed nodes in order to join the network. Doing this will provide its
IP address to the seed nodes.


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