QDN (Qortal Data Network) is a Distributed/Decentralized/Encrypted/Chunked Content Distribution Network that is secured by the Qortal Blockchain.

QDN is unlike any other data network in the world, and has many unique features only found on Qortal.

The Qortal Data Network provides the ability to:

• Host Websites
• Host Applications
• Communications
• Host Public Data
• Host Private Data
• Build nearly anything you can imagine

The Qortal Data Network is completely encrypted and chunked - This means that the data transmitted from node-to-node is completely encrypted, and unable to be 'seen' at all by any 'outside methods'. For example:

An internet service provider wishes to 'spy' on the data their clients are accessing. So they put packet capture on, and take that data to analyze. On the traditional internet they can see what sites they are accessing, they can see if they are downloading a torrent, they can see basically everything that is going on within the network's captured data.

On QDN, however, they would not be able to see any of this, the only information they would be able to obtain, would be that there is a connection from one computer to another, sending data (that has no meaning whatsoever) back and forth. They would be completely unable to determine what this data is, who published it, where it came from initially, etc.

This makes it essentially completely unnecessary to run things like a 'VPN' while utilizing Qortal. In fact, utilizing a VPN on the Qortal Network will do nothing but potentially cause connection issues by adding an additional 'hop' between you and the nodes you are connected to. There is literally only ONE arguable 'benefit' from utilizing a VPN in combination with Qortal, and that is that your IP address will not be 'yours', it will be the IP of the VPN server. (But in many cases this isn't necessarily a good thing, as many providers block connections from VPN servers that are known, and this could cause further issues.)

Ultimately, QDN is MUCH more secure than any other data network, and attempting to add 'additional security' to it, is wholly unnecessary.

(this page is in process of being updated, and completely re-written, more information coming soon.)