Hyphanet (original) (raw)
Reclaim Your Privacy!
Hyphanet makes it easy to publish and follow what others publish with strong privacy protections.
Plugins built on its decentralized data store make it very easy to host your own website and provide microblogging and forums, media sharing from files to video-on-demand and decentralized version tracking, blogging and spam resistance without central authority.
For an easy start you can join the global Opennet. For maximum privacy, connect to your friends and build a friend-to-friend network independent of and invisible to any centralized server. To access the global network, you either need some friends who also connect to opennet, or use the Shoeshop plugin to build a sneakernet that can even bridge separate friend-to-friend networks when your regional internet itself gets severed from the global information network.
Lots of additional information about Hyphanet and its history is available on Wikipedia.
What's New
- Freenet / Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1504 1505 1506: fix vulnerability, optimize routing, cleanups, and upkeep
2026-02-21
Freenet / Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1506 is now available. Install Freenet / Hyphanet for Windows or for GNU/Linux, macOS and other *nixes. See the download page for more information and other platforms. This is a shared release for builds 1504, 1505, and... - Freenet / Hyphanet build 1502/1503: fix vulnerability and visibility, add animated webp, convenience, and optimization
2025-07-06
Freenet / Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1503 is now available. Install Freenet / Hyphanet for Windows or for GNU/Linux, macOS and other *nixes. See the download page for more information and other platforms. This is a shared release page for 1502 and 1503.... - Freenet / Hyphanet build 1501: address performance regression and merged PRs
2025-02-22
Freenet / Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1501 is now available. Install Freenet / Hyphanet for Windows, for GNU/Linux, macOS and other *nixes, or for Android. See the download page for more information and other platforms (Apple Silicon needs library updates to...
Why we do this
I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet
Mike Godwin / Electronic Frontier Foundation