Researchers Build Anonymous, Browser-Based 'Darknet' (DarkReading)

[Posted June 16, 2009 by jake]

DarkReading reports on an upcoming Black Hat presentation which creates a "darknet" from within browsers. A darknet is a network like Tor or Freenet that allows for secure, anonymous use. "Veiled is basically a 'zero footprint' network, in which groups can rapidly form and disappear without a trace. It connects the user's HTML 5-based browser to a single PHP file, which downloads some JavaScript code into the browser. Pieces of the file are spread among the members of the Veiled darknet. It's not peer-to-peer, but rather a chain of 'repeaters' of the PHP file, the researchers say."