Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net

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."

Comments

Re:Gnutella

[localghost]

No, Ferrero makes Nutella.

Re:Beep!

[millwall]

"[...] 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!

1337

[houston_pt]

Listen port
Listening on port 1337

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

Re:Is Groove doomed?

[reaper20]

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."

By their calculations

[LiquidCoooled]

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

daemons name

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it called wasted ?

Re:Hmmm....

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:downloaded, now what?

[zonix]

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