# Quartermaster
an I2P Distributed File Store

### STATUS

### Whole new (incompatible) version currently in development; ETA for release approx 4-7 days; view screenshots here

User Manual | Protocol Spec | Metadata Spec | Q Pr0n (diagrams) | API Spec | qnoderefs.txt | Full Download | Updated jar

## Intro

Quartermaster, or Q for short, is a distributed file storage framework for I2P.

## Features

- Now features 'QSites' - the Q equivalent of Freenet freesites, static websites which are retrievable even if author is offline
- Easy web interface - interact with Q (and view/insert QSites) from your web browser
- Maximum expectations of content retrievability
- Content security akin to Freenet CHK and SSK keys
- Powerful, flexible search engine
- Comfortably accommodates both permanent and transient nodes without significant network disruption (for instance, no flooding of the I2P network with futile calls to offline nodes)
- Rapid query resolution, due to distributed catalogue mirroring which eliminates all in-network query traffic
- Modular, extensible architecture
- Simple interfaces for 3rd-party app developers
- Is custom-designed and built around I2P, so no duplication of I2P's encryption/anonymity features
- Simple XML-RPC interface for all inter-node communication, makes it easy to implement user-level clients in any language; also allows alternative implementations of core server and/or client nodes.

## Status

Q is presently under development, and a test release is expected soon.

## Architecture

Refer to the Protocol Specification for more information.

Last modified: Mon Apr 18 18:55:19 NZST 2005