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StealthNet
Developer	Planet Peer community members
Initial release	2007
Stable release	0.8.7.9[1]  / 13 March 2011
Written in	C#
Operating system	Windows,Linux (GUI with Wine[2] otherwise CLI)
Type	File sharing,Anonymous peer to peer
License	GNU GPL
Website	www.stealthnet.de

StealthNet is ananonymous P2Pfile sharing software based on the originalRShare client, and has been enhanced. It was first named 'RShare CE' (RShare Community Edition). It use the same network and protocols asRShare.

In 2011 a fork namedDarkNode was released,^[3] but one year later^[4] the website is cleared with the source code.

Development was stopped in March 2011, with version 0.8.7.9,^[5] with no official explanation on the web site.^[6]

In 2012, the developers had an incident with the softwareApache Subversion, a part of thesource code of StealthNet was lost : versions 0.8.7.5 (February 2010) to 0.8.7.9 (October 2010).^[7] However the source code is still available as files.

In 2017 it was forked into version 0.8.8.0.^[8]

Some of the features of StealthNet:^[9]

• Mix network (use for the pseudo anonymous process)
• Easy to use (same principles aseMule)
• 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 (Advanced Encryption Standard, 256 bits^[10])
• EndPoint to EndPoint traffic encryption withRSA standard (1024 bits^[10])
• Strongfile hashes based onSHA-512 algorithm
• Anti-flooding measures
• Text mode client available for OS withMono support like Linux, OSX and others

• Has no support for UPnP (Universal Plug and Play), the user must open aport number (ie: 6097) into his router.
• Anonymity is unproven. An earlier version allowed for full deanonymization of users.^[11]
• Thesource code 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.

• Anonymous P2P
• I2P

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• Free file sharing software
• File sharing software for Linux
• Windows file sharing software
• Free software programmed in C Sharp
• Software using the GNU General Public License

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