UDP + Math = Fast File Transfers

Posted by michael on Thursday December 13, 2001 @01:50AM from the udp-is-painless dept.

Wolfger writes: "A new file transfer protocol talked about in EE Times gets data from one place to another without actually transmitting the data..." Well, the information is transmitted, just not in its original form. I think there are a couple of other places working on similar ideas - wasn't there a company using this for a fast file download application? User would go to download a game demo or something, receive pieces from several different places, and knit them together? Wish I could recall the company's name.

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security by night37 · 2001-12-13 02:55 · Score: 2, Offtopic

I wonder how hard it would be to highjack a UDP based session like this. What if bogus packets are injected along with the stream of valid ones. Does the math include any form on encyption? Or is this a tunnel for other protocols? Damn it, we need to move away from clear text protocols, not create new ones!