Re: How do you set up GNUNet on GNU Guix?

On 15-09-2022 15:55, Maxime Devos wrote:
> So iiuc GNUNet is reimplementation of "the internet" with a transporter 
> used to relay the data across selected solution e.g. TCP, UDP, 
> Bluetooth, Wi-FI, etc..


Yes, from the home page:

> 
> GNUnet helps building a new Internet
> 
> GNUnet is a network protocol stack for building secure, distributed, and privacy-preserving applications.
> With strong roots in academic research, our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack.


with the caveat that this new internet is intended to have different 
properties (also from the home page):

> 
> GNUnet provides privacy-by design
> 
> It provides improving addressing, routing, naming and content distribution in a technically robust manner - as opposed to ad-hoc designs in place today.
> 
> Freedoms are not respected
> 
> Today, monitoring increasingly centralized infrastructure, proprietary implementations, traffic shapers and firewalls restrict all of the essential freedoms to various degrees.
> GNUnet supports a free and open society
> 
> GNUnet is a self-organizing network and it is free software as in freedom. GNUnet puts you in control of your data. You determine which data to share with whom, and you're not pressured to accept compromises. It gives users freedoms to securely access information ("run" the network), to study all aspects of the network's operation ("access the code"), to distribute information ("copy"), as well as the freedom to deploy new applications ("modify").
> The state of the art is inefficient
> 
> The ongoing hype around distributed ledgers and blockchains is detrimental to the health of our planet.
> Sustainability
> 
> GNUnet does not require a decentralized, public ledger. This eliminates the need for wasteful, continuous consensus mechanisms, which do not scale and are ecologically unsustainable. GNUnet and its applications employ decentralization only where it provides the most value and use more efficient technology stacks where needed.
> Decentralization is the key, but hard
> 
> Instead of sharing common components and tools for building P2P systems, every P2P project seems to re-invent the wheel. This heightens the effort and increases the potential number of vulnerabilities.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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