Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology

An anonymous reader writes "As reported by The Inquirer, a Finnish company known as Viralg Oy claim to have developed software that can create a junk file with the same hash as a genuine p2p download. This, according to the company, can altogether stop the sharing of copywritten files by flooding p2p networks with corrupt/junk data, which then spreads through the network, causing less and less of the original file to be available. However, with the resolve of the p2p userbase, is this software really going to 'beat all Peer 2 Peer pirates at their own game,' or simply prove a minor annoyance?"

Comments

How they get the MD5/AES hashes

[DarkSkiez]

They probably aren't actually making files with the same hashes, just modifying the clients, probably open source ones too, to report the md5 sums that they want to for each file, so if the client doesnt re-check the sums, it'll get corrupt files, if it does, it'll just have wasted bandwidth.

Re:They have cracked strong hashes, huh?

[Rattencremesuppe]

Says the algorithms patented on their site so presumably we should all be able to go look at this little marvel.

If they patented this algorithm, then it must be a bloody stupid and obvious one which already has lots of implementations and is in widespread use since more than 20 years.

Re:Coral Cache

[fcrick]

Coral sucks. Stop posting Coral links. It works if you have a controlled environment, but for some reason people think its this smiley fuzzy idea that they should support even though it doesn't actually work.

Fix the system. Get it working in the real world, and _then_ start posting links.