Omemo is an open source social storage platform, in which users anonymously share files on a part of their hard disks. It has been developed by Pablo Soto

Pablo Soto

Pablo Soto was born in Spain in 1979. In 2001 he developed the MANOLITO protocol, Blubster and Piolet - two peer-to-peer file-sharing servents.He apparently left the MP2P Community in 2004, subsequently Blubster and Piolet slowly began to lose their user base...

, who is also creator of Blubster.

Omemo uses a ring-shaped DHT

Distributed hash table

A distributed hash table is a class of a decentralized distributed system that provides a lookup service similar to a hash table; pairs are stored in a DHT, and any participating node can efficiently retrieve the value associated with a given key...

 based on Chord. It is meant to support key-based routing while keeping query source obscurity due to randomization.

It is free software

Free software

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 licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License

GNU General Public License

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