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Comment File sharing for friends (Score 1) 3

by tethernet on Monday February 23, 2009 @03:44PM (#26960857) Attached to: Combining BitTorrent with darknets for P2P privacy

I've been using the beta version of OneSwarm for a while, and I found it extremely useful. It's great for sharing files privately with friends. The best part is that it allows you to download files from your friends' friends (and vice-versa) without ever revealing your identity or IP address.

Submission + - Combining BitTorrent with darknets for P2P privacy (washington.edu) 3

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CSEMike

on Monday February 23, 2009 @02:40PM

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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