Is there any P2P private file storage? [closed]

I would like to upload my private encrypted files to the cloud. However I don't want to rely on a company to do this, such as Dropbox. If I share it on a P2P network (such as using torrents) nobody would copy my files.

I am willing to copy other people's files if they do the same for me. Is there such a P2P network for private encrypted files?

Solution 1:

There are two solutions that I know of that provide this:

• Crashplan – you can trade storage with your friends.
• Buddybackup – ditto.

http://skeptu.com/p2p-backup-software keeps an updated list of such software.

Solution 2:

Freenet is the one project that springs to mind.

Freenet is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites" (web sites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship. Freenet is decentralised to make it less vulnerable to attack, and if used in "darknet" mode, where users only connect to their friends, is very difficult to detect.

Otherwise there is a list of distributed file storage systems at http://www.infoanarchy.org/en/Distributed_file_storage

It appears that a number of the projects are dead though, MNet was last updated in 2005... not sure about any of the others.