OneSwarm A very easy to use P2P data sharing application
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A very easy to use P2P data sharing application 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. This type of sharing is called friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing. Here are some key features of "OneSwarm": · 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. What's New in This Release: · Support for publishing to community servers. · Fixed bug in group management UI. · At first handshake, agree on secret location to publish IP:port (instead of at SHA1(A_pubkey+B_pubkey) ). · SHA1 and ed2k hash search to find swarms containing a specific file. · Added --configure command line option to configure remote access on linux servers without X (Xvfb is still needed). · More localized strings (not yet complete, however). · Fixed torrent opening bugs on OSX Snow Leopard. · Fixed bug preventing connections to obfuscated peers for public torrents. · Fixed DHT memory leak for users with many friends. · Reduced memory usage for users with large watch directories. · Fixed watch directory bug preventing hashing of some directories on Windows. · Support for sharing and searching files with 4-byte characters in the names.

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