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Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the p2p-gets-more-and-more dept.

Myriad writes "Nullsoft, makers of the venerable Winamp MP3 player, released today a secure, distributed mesh-like networking protocal and platform called Waste. This v1.0 beta release uses RSA (key based) and Blowfish encryption for security, and features Instant Messanging and group chat, along with file browsing, searching, and transfer. Waste has been released under the GPL, with source and binaries available here."

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  1. Beep! by BladeMelbourne · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for the link!

    On their site I found a program called Beep. It makes noises on keyboard/mouse input :-)

    http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nbeep

    It gets annoying after a while, but it is 'cute' enough to impress my girlfriend. And that matters as much as keeping my RedHat system up2date. LOL

    1. Re:Beep! by millwall · · Score: 4, Funny

      "[...] It makes noises on keyboard/mouse input :-) [...] it is 'cute' enough to impress my girlfriend."

      Where do you find a girl that could be impressed that easily? No need for fancy restaurants or expensive gifts, just type on your keyboard and she goes mental.... nice!
    2. Re:Beep! by Debian+Troll · · Score: 3, Funny
      Dear levinramsey,

      I've just gotten off the phone with Bruce Perens, talking about that very topic! At the moment, both Bruce and I are too busy to devote much time to our Debian-focused e-newsletter, Elitist Open Source Zealot Virgin. As you may be aware, I am totally consumed with my current Windows port of apt-get, and Bruce has a full time job just keeping the hobos and crack junkies out of his cardboard box underneath the 23rd Street rail bridge.

      Sincerely,
      Debian Troll.

  2. Re:Gnutella by localghost · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, Ferrero makes Nutella.

  3. well... by inkedmn · · Score: 2, Funny

    as long as it has those uber-bitchin' skins, i'm in.

    --
    well, it's nothing one behind the ear wouldn't cure
  4. 1337 by houston_pt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Listen port
    Listening on port 1337

    Somehow I think this is a very well chosen port... ;-)

    --
    coffee | nose > keyboard ©
  5. Re:Is Groove doomed? by reaper20 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If

    a) Groove was actually used by anybody and
    b) It wasn't such horrible software

    then I would say yes. Unfortunately Groove is a solution looking for a problem, and how many people get excited when you hear "designed by the guy that designed Notes."

  6. Re:The USA is Dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Woohoo! Will Canada give me refugee status? I heard they had JOBS and free health care up there!

    Packin' my bags!

  7. By their calculations by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    To the MPAA, 50 nodes running on a fast network means there are really 300 wicked infidel filetraders!!!!

    --
    liqbase :: faster than paper
  8. daemons name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it called wasted ?

  9. Re:Hmmm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    if you're not in encrypted communities for PIRATING, you're in it for TERRORISM.

  10. Re:downloaded, now what? by zonix · · Score: 4, Funny
    okay i've downloaded it. now how the hell do I connect to someone else and start talking?

    You need to have friends, dude! :-)

    z
    --
    What would an EWOULDBLOCK block, if an EWOULDBLOCK could block would? -- me
  11. good name... by fok · · Score: 2, Funny


    . "I waste you when I get home"
    . "Have you been wasted today?"
    . "Be right there... just let me waste someone..."

    and so on and so forth...

    --
    \m/
  12. i want a miniDonkey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    imagine the new minidonky shows! "...many interconnected and unstoppable."

    too much fun!

  13. Re:Linux port ? by Kompressor · · Score: 2, Funny

    btw, you can catch me on ICQ at 270283531 if you want to work this in realtime.

    --
    kmem russian roulette: Aquillar> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/kmem bs=1 count=1 seek=$RANDOM
  14. Re:Still beats plain-text by far by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The trick is, you not only have to replace the key, but have to take control of the conversation after that. Depending on how the secure connection is being used, this may or may not be easy. If you're trying to convince J. Random Hacker that you're his best friend Steve, your first chat session is going to be an interesting version of the Turing test.

    "So, Steve. How's Wolfie?"

    "Wolfie? Oh, he's doing fine. Really good doggie."

    "Steve, you don't have a dog. Wolfie is your wife's nickname."

    "Oh, I knew that. BTW, can I get your credit card number?"

    Transmission ends, key is deleted.

  15. Nullsoft's Product Names by Midajo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Probably the same company that made the PIMP (and afterwards the SuperPIMP) install system...

    And let's not forget the program packass.exe, which creates a big .ASS archive, similar to a tarball. No, I'm not kidding. Check it out.
    Buncha hooligans.