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Combining BitTorrent With Darknets For P2P Privacy

Posted by kdawson on from the your-move dept.

CSEMike writes "Currently popular peer-to-peer networks suffer from a lack of privacy. For applications like BitTorrent or Gnutella, sharing a file means exposing your behavior to anyone interested in monitoring it. OneSwarm is a new file sharing application developed by researchers at the University of Washington that improves privacy in peer-to-peer networks. Instead of communicating directly, sharing in OneSwarm is friend-to-friend; senders and receivers exchange data using multiple intermediaries in an overlay mesh. OneSwarm is built on (and backwards compatible with) BitTorrent, but includes numerous extensions to improve privacy while providing good performance: point-to-point encryption using SSL, source-address rewriting, and multi-path and multi-source downloading. Clients and source are available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows."

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  1. why? its all legal by cliffski · · Score: -1, Troll

    But we only use p2p for distributing WOW patches and linux distros. Whyw ould be need all this security for what is perfectly legal?
    Or could it be that the pretence that p2p is used for legal purposes has finally been dropped here at torrentfreak / slashdot?

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  2. Sometimes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The best isn't right.

    Goatse. Kittens.

  3. A better solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    how about you thieves just buy something for one instead of being a bunch of thieving cunts?

  4. Re:The internet at work. by iminplaya · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmmmm, this looks like a good place to drop anchor...

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  5. Re:The average user don't care about security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do you know where you're going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Do you get what you're hoping for? Do you know the way to San Jose? Well, do you?

  6. Are you a paedo? Probably by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Weirdo you not only steal flicks, you steal paedo flicks sicko