hnet - an experimental decentralized and anonymous database

hnet spreads small amounts of data across several non-traditional storage engines such as images, gists, pastebin, twitter streams, irc chat rooms, etc...

By design, it is not reliable, fast, or consistent.

An ideal use-case for hnet would be storing tuples of server IP addresses and ports.

Introduction and explanation of how hnet works

Usage

For now, you can find many examples of usage here: hnet api examples

There is also a basic http server example which will response to http requests with hnet data

the hnet protocol is JSON

Supports arbitrary data

[
  { "foo": "bar", "tar": "val" },
  { "foo": "boo", "something": ["a","b","c"] },
  { "foo": "bar", "tar": "val" },
]

Supports JSON-RPC commands

hnet optionally supports JSON-RPC commands.

[
  { "foo": "boo", "something": ["a","b","c"] },
  { "method": "link", params: [ { "type": "couch", "uri": "http://hnet.iriscouch.com/public/0"} ] },
  { "foo": "bar", "tar": "val" }
]

hnet protocol JSON-RPC methods

method: link

params: type, uri

the link method indicates that we should lazily link this document from a remote dataset

type - the type of dataset we are going to load

ex: couch, gist, imgur, irc, etc..

uri - the uri of the node. i.e., the location

ex: http://hnet.iriscouch.com/public/0

Ex:

{ "method": "link", params: [ { "type": "couch", "uri": "http://hnet.iriscouch.com/public/0"} ] },

TODO:

• Finish pluggable crypto system
• Add additional engines for:
• Image Steganography
• PasteBin
• Reddit
• Imgur
• Hacker News deadlink jail
• Twitter
• IRC
• Add pluggable item de-duplication engine