In the early stages StealthNet was known as RShare Community Edition (RShare CE). However, due to several reasons we had to rename this project to its new name StealthNet. This is the reason why the RShare forums on the Planet Peer Board also have been renamed to RShare/StealthNet.
Both clients are open source and source code is available. They are released under the GPL
Advantages over other anonymous P2P networks
As a matter of course StealthNet is not the only client for anonymous file sharing. There are a lot of others available, like ANts or MUTE. However, StealthNet has one important advantage: In comparison with its competitors it is under _active_ development by a developer team and feature requests from the community are incorporated.
Some more advantages are:
Straightforward handling, even for beginners: Install, enable port forwarding and you are good to go! Anonymous P2P can´t be easier
Modern and user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI): Due to a GUI similar to eMule users are able to work in no time with StealthNet
Fast file transfers: As measured by the fact that StealthNet is an anonymous P2P client it has great download rates, especially when it comes to small files (depends on several factors)
Has anti-flood-measure in place to avoid network sabotage like flooding the network with useless data packets or so
Command line client for systems with Mono support like Linux, OSX and so on is available
Why should one use StealthNet instead of eDonkey & co.?
That´s pretty simple. StealthNet was primarily developed with strong anonymity and security in mind. It offers a great level of protection which other networks lacks of. In comparion with regular P2P networks like eDonkey it is nearly impossible to locate users who provide content within the RShare network. The complete traffic within the network is encrypted by approved and popular encryption techniques and downloads are routed through several other nodes so nobody can correlate what´s going on between the nodes.
Homepage: http://www.stealthnet.de/en_index.php
StealthNet requires .NET 2.0 Framework from Microsoft!
Windows
Archive: stealthnet_0.8.7.8_win32.zip [SHA512]Windows Installer: stealthnet_setup.exe [SHA512]
Linux
Archive: stealthnet_0.8.7.8_linux.zip [SHA512]Source Code
Archive: stealthnet_0.8.7.8_source.zip [SHA512]Changelog
- Fixed: Wrong textdisplay in Quickinformation fixed (BZ 186)
- Changed: AddFile-message not reported if the file is already known
- Changed: Juo's Suggestion implemented (changed the route selection)
- Changed: Protocol Timeouts redefined
- Fixed: Bug in Connection.cs
