What is Omemo
Omemo is a free and open source storage platform based on anonymous P2P communication system. It develops a special method which is everyone shares some parts of their hard drive to establish an enormous virtual hard drive throughout the world. It provides a possibility to set up a distributed storage network which might have limitless storage space. The most attractive feature of Omemo is, it’s totally anonymous, no matter users upload or download sources, all the data are transmitted through key-based routing and randomly assigning query source.
Omemo allows people to upload and organise files with anonymity and user can access their files from anywhere. No one can change or delete the files that users have shared in this social storage network and no one can trace or monitor the exchange of sources, just as a spokesperson said, “There is no way to know who uploads a file, nor who downloads it.” To some extent, it supports the spirit of freedom and democracy of the Internet.
Omemo is available for Windows platfrom only.
How does it work
Users should firstly share some space on their local hard drive and the programm will set up a virtual hard drive based on these shared space. The more users, the larger will this multimedia library be built.
Omemo uses a a ring-shaped DHT based on Chord, it can realise anonymous data transmission based on key-based routing and randomly assigned query source. The more detailed discusstion of Omemo technical information can be found in these two website:
1. OMEMO: einige technische Infos
2. OMEMO: anonymous drive sharing
Support & development
Unfortunately, Omemo has been defunct already. The latest released programme was still a beta version and it stopped the support of any upload/download actions.
Usage experience
As Omemo has stopped any supports of it’s operation, forum and wiki, I cannot run it by myself, but there is still several screenshots can be found in this review article:
Omemo Launches New P2P Network
References:
1. The World of Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
2. 5 Most Efficient Online Data Back Up And Bulk Storage Sites
3. Omemo Launches New P2P Network
4. Innovative P2P Network launched by Omemo
5. Omemo.com – Open Source Social File Storage
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omemo