Decentralize BitTorrent with Kenosis

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."

Comments

Still falls just a bit short.

[Nosf3ratu]

This doesn't anonymize the users, does it? Your IP address is still readily available, no?

Then this falls a bit short of the "killer p2p app" moniker that it *almost* deserves.

Great Step, but still no safe haven for fileshares

[314m678]

This is an important step, but it still does not hide the user's IPs from the *AA.
From the Article:

It does not address problems of anonymity, privacy, or distributed data retention, although we hope to address these issues in future versions.