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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. Re:Beep! by Debian+Troll · · Score: 0, Troll
    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

    If you were using Debian and its fantastic apt-get package management system, you wouldn't need to worry about that (using up2date or having a girlfriend).

    apt-get zealotry makes life simple in more ways than one!

  2. Why didn't they call it "Idiot"? by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Waste" is such a user-friendly name. NOT!

    Another example of the marketing skill of technically minded people?

  3. Re:Hmmm.... by phyxeld · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think it would (matter), since you can't very well use this tool to trade files with complete strangers or even large groups of people. This software simply isn't a problem for them (the *AA). Gnutella, OpenNAP, Kazaa, et al are a far bigger threat.

    Lately XNap (xnap.sf.net) has been my p2p app of choice.

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  4. Impressive by hafree · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow nice going inventing a P2P network that finds other nodes via broadcast. Nullsoft invented something that already existed 20 years ago. Nice job!