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Entropy (anonymous data store)
:''For entropy in the context of [[thermodynamics]], see [[entropy]].''
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[[Image:entropy_2.png|thumb|250px|Entropy 0.8.2 using Konqueror]]
'''Entropy''' is a decentralized, [[peer-to-peer]] communication network designed to be resistant to [[censorship]], much like [[Freenet]].  Entropy is an anonymous data store.  It pools the contributed [[bandwidth]] and storage space of member computers to allow users to [[anonymity|anonymously]] publish or retrieve information of all kinds. The term "Entropy" is an acronym for "Emerging Network To Reduce [[George_Orwell|Orwellian]] Potency Yield," referring to [[George Orwell]]'s famous novel ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' and its [[totalitarian]] thought police enslaving people by controlling their information.

=-=Why not Freenet?==
Freenet has two disagreeing schools of routing management, and a lot of code bloat.  It was the first of its kind and suffers much of the lack of prior experience. Some problems, such as the unweildy FCP split file calculation, are handled automatically with Entropy, whereas Freenet requires every program to manually perform those operations.

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