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Open Content Network (P2P meets Open Source)

Posted by michael on from the leveraging-synergies dept.

Orasis writes "The creators of Swarmcast have announced a new peer-to-peer content delivery network called the Open Content Network. The OCN will allow users to download open source and public domain content from multiple peers and mirrors in parallel. The system is designed to augment the existing mirrors with bandwidth from the p2p network and should eliminate the "Slashdot Effect" for popular open source content."

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  1. Re:Need for Checksumming by popeyethesailor · · Score: 5, Informative
    It is part of the specs


    1.2 Untrusted Caches

    It is currently unsafe to download web objects from an untrusted cache or mirror because they can modify/corrupt the content at will. This becomes particularly problematic when trying to create public cooperative caching systems. This isn't a problem for private CDNs, like Akamai, where all of their servers are under Akamai's control and are assumed to be secure. But for a public CDN, the goal is to allow user-agents to retrieve content from completely untrusted hosts but be assured that they are receiving the content intact. The CAW solves this problem by using content addressing that includes integrity checking information.