StealthNet is an

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software based on the original RShare client, and has been enhanced. It was first named 'RShare CE' (RShare Community Edition). It use the same network and protocols as RShare. In 2011 a fork named ''DarkNode'' was released, but one year later the website is cleared with the source code.

History

Development was stopped in March 2011, with version 0.8.7.9, with no official explanation on the web site. In 2012, the developers had an incident with the software

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, a part of the

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of StealthNet was lost : versions 0.8.7.5 (February 2010) to 0.8.7.9 (October 2010). However the source code is still available as files. In 2017 it was forked into version 0.8.8.0.

Features

Some of the features of StealthNet: *

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(use for the pseudo anonymous process) * Easy to use (same principles as

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) * Multi-source download : 'Swarming' (Segmented file transfer) * Resumption of interrupted downloads * Can filter the file types searched (allowing to search only among the videos/archives/musics/... files) * SNCollection: this type of file contain a list of files shared into StealthNet. Like the "eMule collection" file and Torrents files * Point-to-Point traffic encryption with AES standard process (

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, 256 bitsStealthNet v0.8.7.9 source code, file '\core\Core\Constants.cs') * EndPoint to EndPoint traffic encryption with RSA standard (1024 bits) * Strong file hashes based on SHA-512 algorithm * Anti-

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measures *

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client available for OS with Mono support like Linux, OSX and others

Drawbacks

* Has no support for UPnP (

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), the user must open a

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number (ie: 6097) into his router. * Anonymity is unproven. * The

contains no documentation at all. * The encryption level (AES 256 bits and RSA 1024 bits in the v0.8.7.9) that was strong in the 2000s is now medium since the 2010s.

References

External links

Archived Web Site
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History

Features

Drawbacks

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