OneSwarm P2P 0.6.2 online
p2pnet news view P2P:- OneSwarm v0.6.2, backwards compatible with BitTorrent, is now online.
Designed to give users, “explicit control over their privacy,” it’s a file sharing app through which Data can be shared everywhere for everyone, only among friends, or only with specific friends.
“Version 0.6.2 introduces a major new feature: support for community servers,” p2pnet has been told.
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Although widely used, currently popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications offer no 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, using a P2P network means that your online activities become public knowledge.
OneSwarm is a new peer-to-peer tool that provides users with explicit control over their privacy by letting them determine 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.
- User friendly: 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.
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July 1st, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Any regular p2pnet lurkers out there have experience with OneSwarm??
I’ve been reading about it, but dont have any dirrect fileshare associates
to try it out with, (I know, pathetic loner hack!:) ) anyway, somebody
thats used it needs to review it for us!
byo & stw
July 1st, 2009 at 6:52 pm
I’d say it’s very functional in it’s current state. Depending on the data searched for, it often gets all the way up to torrent speeds.
The only real gripe I have with the system is that they have opted for a web interface as the main source of interaction with the application, instead of having native clients.
The system is also based upon Azureus code (yes, pre-Vuze) and is therefore, just as memory intensive as Azureus was/is.
Overall, if you’ve got the friends to support it, it’s great. The community server feature is also really great and will truly help to get the project up and running.