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MUTE: Simple, Private File Sharing
oohp writes "MUTE is a new file sharing network that provides easy search and download functionality while protecting your privacy. It does this by routing all messages through a network of neighbour connections, using virtual addresses and encrypting all the traffic (using RSA for public/private keys and AES for the actual encryption). MUTE's routing mechanism is inspired by ant behaviour. The program is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X."
"Lastly, if a p2p network is just beginning, it's very likely to be slow due to a lack of users rather than inherent technical limitations of the network itself."
Its slow because of asymmetric connections, which most of us have. You'd be transfering data through your connection that you have nothing to do with. I can download 150 kb/s but upload at 26 kb/s max.
BitTorrent suffers from the same type of issue. Unless you have some people on a torrent with high-speed symmetric connections, transfer is pretty slow since upload caps are low (or worse, people are being selfish and uploading nothing)
> a tool that ignored variable names
Cool. Yup, that would be a good feature to add to CPD.
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