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Decentralize BitTorrent with Kenosis

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-you-peer-what-he-is-saying dept.

UnderScan writes "Eric Ries, writer/programmer/CTO, authored an article 'Kenosis and the World Free Web' at Freshmeat [Owned by Slashdot's Parent OSTG]. Kenosis is described as a 'fully-distributed peer-to-peer RPC system built on top of XMLRPC.' He has combined his Kenosis with BitTorrent & removed the need for a centralized tracker. He states: 'To demonstrate Kenosis's suitability for these new applications, we have used it to improve upon another peer-to-peer filesharing application that Just Works: BitTorrent. BitTorrent does one thing incredibly well. Using a centralized "tracker," BitTorrent manages efficient distribution of data that is in high demand. We have extended BitTorrent, using Kenosis, to eliminate this dependence on a centralized tracker.' See also the Kenosis README for details on using Kenosis-enabled BitTorrent."

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  1. ke.no.sis by KillerDeathRobot · · Score: 5, Informative

    n. Christianity

    The relinquishment of the form of God by Jesus in becoming man and suffering death.

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  2. Quite useful by drewzhrodague · · Score: 5, Informative

    QUite useful, of course! We could distribute spatial-data, and Wi-Fi locations to PDAs and laptops in this way. There are metric tons of useful applications for BT and K.

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  3. Re:This will be considered a troll, but... by athakur999 · · Score: 5, Informative

    One of the problems with BitTorrent is that the trackers themselves can get overloaded with too many clients. If this system can eliminate something like that happening then that'd definately be a good thing.

    That being said, the busiest torrents I've seen are for copyright-infringing material, so I guess it's still a boon for piracy. ;)

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  4. Re:No central server? by sinclair44 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Continuing reading, you can see that it's possible to directly have a torrent reference the network. The kenosisp2p.org bit is only for legacy clients that wouldn't know what to do with a "new" tracker location.

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  5. We are looking for help by mcm · · Score: 5, Informative

    (I am one of the authors of Kenosis.)

    We are planning improvements to Kenosis in a number of areas such as better integration with BitTorrent, a more distributed BT tracker, simulation of larger Kenosis networks and making Kenosis work over NAT.

    We'd love help with any of these or other areas.

    Please join the mailing list to get involved.