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| name                   = Entropy
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| developer              = Pullmoll
| released               = 2003
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| latest release date    = April 2004
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| programming language   = C
| operating system       = Windows, Unix
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| language               = English, German
| status                 = Inactive
| genre                  = [[Anonymity]], [[Peer-to-peer]]
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| website                = http://stop1984.com/{{Dead link|date=August 2010}}
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'''Entropy''' was a decentralized, [[peer-to-peer]] communication network designed to be resistant to [[censorship]], much like [[Freenet]].  Entropy was an anonymous data store written in the [[C (programming language)|C programming language]].  It pooled the contributed [[Bandwidth (computing)|bandwidth]] and storage space of member computers to allowed users to [[anonymity|anonymously]] publish or retrieve information of all kinds.  The name "Entropy" was a [[backronym]] 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.

Entropy was designed to be compatible with the similar Freenet system. As such, any Freenet client could be configured to run on the Entropy network.  However, Entropy and Freenet data stores are not compatible with each other and therefore do not share data.

Entropy featured a news interface, for reading and posting on the latest frost message boards from within the client.

== Status ==
On July 9, 2004, the creator of Entropy announced that he had stopped work on the project amid uncertainty about the security of the included algorithms, namely the [[McEliece cryptosystem]].

McEliece has been proven resistant to attack by [[Quantum Fourier Sampling]] as used by [[Shor's algorithm]].<ref>[http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.2390 The McEliece Cryptosystem Resists Quantum Fourier Sampling Attacks]</ref>

==See also==
* [[Anonymous P2P]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://slashdot.org/articles/04/07/10/1458202.shtml Slashdot: Entropy Project Closes Up Shop]

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