Meet OneSwarm – ‘Keep pushing, RIAA’
p2pnet news view P2P:- As predicted by a lot of people (”including me,” says David Barrett), “there’s a new P2P network on the block with built-in onionskin routing.”
It’s called OneSwarm, he says, going on »»»
Even better, it’s backwards compatible with BitTorrent, and they tossed in always-on “web-of-trust” encryption just for fun.
In English: what little light we ever had into pirate activity just got dimmer. And if we push them really hard, they’ll go entirely dark.
If you thought 20:1 was hard to prove (or disprove) today, just *wait* until everything is encrypted and decentralized.
Next step: widespread adoption of decentralized tracking, followed by decentralized indexing — perhaps using my good friend Tom Jacob’s brilliant Localhost.
Keep pushing, RIAA. You’re giving birth to a very angry child. And if you think it’s painful now, just wait until it grows up.
Says the OneSwarm site »»»
Although widely used, currently popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are limited by a lack of user privacy. By design, services like BitTorrent and Gnutella share data with anyone that asks for it, allowing a third-party to systematically monitor user behavior. As a result, P2P networks can only be safely used by those comfortable with wholly public knowledge of their activity.
OneSwarm is a new P2P data sharing application we’re building to provide users with explicit control over their privacy by enabling fine-grained control over how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth. We call this friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing. OneSwarm is:
- Privacy preserving: OneSwarm uses source address rewriting to protect user privacy. Instead of always transmitting data directly from sender to receiver (immediately identifying both), OneSwarm may forward data through multiple intermedaries, obscuring the identity of both sender and receiver. For more details, check out the OneSwarm overview screencast or our papers.
- Usable: OneSwarm’s interface is web-based and supports real-time transcoding of many audio and video formats for in-browser playback, eliminating the need for casual users to master a new application’s interface or search for custom media codecs.
- Open: OneSwarm is freely available and built on existing standards. OneSwarm can operate as a fully backwards compatible BitTorrent client, and its friend-to-friend data sharing features are built on cryptographic standards, e.g., X.509 certificates and SSL encryption.
For more details, check out FAQ, wiki, forum, and screencasts below.
 |
Mac OS X (10.4+, universal binary) |
 |
Windows XP |
 |
Windows Vista (Note: This includes a bundled JRE7 to correct a JVM crash bug on Vista) |
 |
Linux (32 bit) |
|
Linux (64 bit) |
 |
Source cod |
Stay tuned.
David Barrett – OneSwarm: It was just a matter of time, February 23, 2009
Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It`s really easy!
Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php
Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.
February 24th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
NOTE: So that you know, this software does not offer strong anonymity. From the FAQ on the official site:
Q: Does OneSwarm offer strong anonymity? Who can track my behavior?
No. Strong anonymity requires that an adversary with the ability to eavesdrop on every network packet be unable to recover information about data transmitted. In the case of OneSwarm, such an adversary would be able to correlate the increase in traffic between sender and receiver along an overlay path. Of course, monitoring the entire Internet is beyond the capabilities of most monitoring agents, and OneSwarm is intended only to improve privacy relative to existing P2P networks that unambiguously broadcast user behavior. OneSwarm users should trust their directly connected friends and can expect privacy relative to the wholesale monitoring of P2P networks that is common today, but a capable monitoring agent (e.g., law enforcement or government) may be able to infer behavior. For more details, check out our papers.
February 24th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
So……it’s better than, say BT. But its not like getting limo tint on your car!
GOT IT!!
stw
February 25th, 2009 at 7:44 am
The combination of BT and some trustfull blocklists like on PG2 (you can add and delete IPs) still does it. If you wanna have total anonymity on the net – switch off.
February 25th, 2009 at 7:58 am
id like i=to introduce you all to a white paper form 2001 us hackers had started:
Ill give you the pseudo code ideal of it,
ok this was back in the FXP days as in hacked networks that would then have a bot placed on them YA know how those bot nets work, well this is where the similarities end and something i call a neural network begins and is akin to this decentralized network on speed.
somewhere someone has to be a tracker , what if that so called tracker was YOUR businesses main server and that before you detect it in quadruplicate back ups are hidden elsewhere and ready, well an ftp like setup for this also had each file or rar that was in effect another of these so called hacked up servers , such that speeds would be ultra fast and “appear as a single ftp”
can you face that RIAA
that’s 8 year old tech, do you really know what is really out there as these morons using all this stupid tech you can see is going.
THIS protocol was developed into 8 pieces of software and ONLY given to 4 people whom have yet to give or share it.
Virii technology developed ot its most useful conclusion ….isn’t that a kick in the pants when you pressure ISPS and remove freedoms, , IT WONT MATTER, WE WILL HAVE WHAT WE WANT.
You cannot fight a person who is dedicated to a cause with some schmo that works 9 to 5 has a hour long lunch and two breaks.
Cannot be done for every one of me you need a dozen, and there are thousands of me.
Remember this is 8 year old ideas that CAN AND DID HAPPEN.
to the above poster what that means is that if YOUR rout is compromised by a elecoya like device that sniffs both packet and both ends of destination ( where it came and where its going) then your not anonymous, all they have to do is require a hole in encryption and or make a law removing your ability to do so and your pwned.
The true way is to be a hacker and make your own system as above. Call it a “call to arms”.
What i have seen in the past 4 years as more “regular” people get into BT that the people such as myself are seen as “smartasses” or nerdy types that aren’t in line with “regular” people , evidence of that fact is seen in chats and dumb silly windows users don’t realize that they do more harm to themselves by not heading the warnings.
So far 3 major things i predicted would happen. I’ll let you decide what they were in the last year.
Wait till the conviction comes for the pirate bay folk
February 25th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
The Scene:
Would you equate BT to being a new ‘fad’ in file sharing?
I think the “smartasses” part is probably how they perceive the responses. It is difficult to help people and not be annoyed when they don’t want to learn anything for themselves. Others, such as myself, don’t use something until we learn about it and really understand it. I don’t use BT because I don’t fully understand it, meaning I don’t know how the protocol works in n-th detail. I understand PGP somewhat as I forget it, that course was 3yrs ago. So before I start going secure, I want to understand it first.
Sometimes the warnings are tough to understand for the masses because they don’t think it could happen to them. I’ve often said to my mother “Look, who is Bill Gates? He’s rich and famous. Let’s think logically, why would he ‘personally’ send you a Microsoft patch via email? Think about that, you’re no one famous, you don’t exist to him.” Originally it was taken as me being a nerdy smartass, but eventually after I explained it nicely, my mom understood why I would say it that way.
You know how many still fall for the phishing and email attachment scams. It is really amazing. I believe it is clearly a case that they don’t understand what they are using (computer) and the risks involved. No matter how many times we explain it, they won’t fully understand because it is not viewed as high in importance.
I hope you don’t get too frustrated with questions from people who “don’t get it.” If we want to help them we have to understand they are lost without patient help. I don’t think anything will change them and make them more self reliant. I’ve tried so hard to get my family to teach themselves, I’ve shown them resources, and they still listen to “friends from work.”
February 26th, 2009 at 6:46 am
Robert, Bittorrent and P2P like Gnutella were available in the 90’s It is an old fad.
Something new and more secure will become available, People made Bittorrent when they found out how insecure Gnutella(Ares/Bear Share/Limewire) was.
So I wouldn’t be surprised if theres a big change in how we share data and soon.