What is GNUnet?
===============
-GNUnet is peer-to-peer framework focusing on security. The first and
-primary application for GNUnet is anonymous file-sharing. GNUnet is
-currently developed by a worldwide group of independent free software
-developers. GNUnet is a GNU package (http://www.gnu.org/).
+GNUnet is peer-to-peer framework providing a network abstractions and
+applications focusing on security and privacy. So far, we have
+created applications for anonymous file-sharing, decentralized naming
+and identity management, decentralized and confidential telephony and
+tunneling IP traffic over GNUnet. GNUnet is currently developed by a
+worldwide group of independent free software developers. GNUnet is a
+GNU package (http://www.gnu.org/).
This is an ALPHA release. There are known and significant bugs as
-well as many missing features in this release.
+well as many missing features in this release.
Additional documentation about GNUnet can be found at
https://gnunet.org/.
These are the direct dependencies for running GNUnet:
-- libextractor >= 0.6.1
-- libmicrohttpd >= 0.9.33
+- libmicrohttpd >= 0.9.42
- libgcrypt >= 1.6
- libgnurl >= 7.35.0 (available from https://gnunet.org/gnurl)
- libunistring >= 0.9.2
- gnutls >= 3.2.12
- libidn >= 1.0
-- libglpk >= 4.45
+- libextractor >= 0.6.1 (highly recommended)
- openssl >= 1.0 (binary, used to generate X.509 certificate)
- libltdl >= 2.2 (part of GNU libtool)
- sqlite >= 3.8 (default database, required)
- libogg >= 1.3.0 (optional for experimental conversation tool)
- python-zbar >= 0.10 (optional for gnunet-qr)
- TeX Live >= 2012 (optional for gnunet-bcd)
+- libglpk >= 4.45 (optional for experimental code)
Recommended autotools for compiling the SVN version are:
- autoconf >= 2.59
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