ANts P2P realizes a third generation P2P net.
It protects your privacy while you are connected and makes you not trackable,
hiding your identity (ip) and crypting everything you are sending/receiving from others.

Features

• Open Source Java implementation (GNU-GPL license).
• Multiple sources download.
• Automatic resume and sources research over the net.
• Sources finding over the net given the hash of the file.
• Search by hash, string and structured query.
• Embedded support for etherogeneus data types (not only arrays of bytes...).
• Completely Object-Oriented routing protocol.
• Point to Point secured comunication: DH(512)-AES(128)
• EndPoint to EndPoint secured comunication: DH(512)-AES(128)
• Automatic serverless peer dicovery procedure.
• IRC based peer discovery system.
• IRC embeded chat system.

How does it work?

ANts is NOT a common P2P software. The net you join using the ANts client is an AD-HOC network.

In the classic p2p networks files are exchanged by means of direct connections among users that want to share a file.

In ad-hoc networks two nodes (say A and B) don't need a direct connection to comunicate each other, cause the comunication is realized by channels passing through other nodes:

ANts use this feature tipical of ad-hoc networks in order to grant anonimity and private communications. Realizing protected channels through any couple of nodes and making impossible for a node to identify the real peer it is communicating with (zero-knowledge routing protocol).

If you want to know more about the protocol and the network implementation please visit the official website in the web-links section of this guide, where you can find a full coverage and useful links to understand better ad-hoc networking.