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> While G2 lacks any trust mechanisms there are a few projects working in the problem space of trusted decentralized stacks Search engines need to solve the sp

> While G2 lacks any trust mechanisms there are a few projects working in the problem space of trusted decentralized stacks Search engines need to solve the spam issue. Without central control you lack any solid ground for eradicating spam, preventing fake accounts, and exploits to your protocols. Building trust is not easy. The only progress we made in the past decade was with Bitcoin, proof-of-work. Bittorrent relies on either a central tracker or the DHT(==not very secure). For the past 12 years I've dedicated my academic career to building trust without any central control or central servers. It's hard. <plug> We enhanced a Bittorrent client with a web-of-trust plus distributed torrent search and replaced tit-for-tat with a ledger. We using an incremental PageRank-like trust model. https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki#current-items-under-active-development https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki#current-items-under-...

gardnr 9y ago
> Tribler is the first client which continuously tries to improve upon the basic BitTorrent implementation by addressing some of the flaws. It implements, amongst others, remote search, streaming, channels and reputation-management. All these features are implemented in a completely distributed manner, not relying on any centralized component. Still, Tribler manages to remain fully backwards compatible with BitTorrent. > Lengthy documentation in the form of two master thesis documents is available. First is a general documentation of the tunnel and relay mechanism, Anonymous HD video streaming, .pdf 68 pages. Second is focused on encryption part, called Anonymous Internet: Anonymizing peer-to-peer traffic using applied cryptography, .pdf 85 pages. In addition, there are the specifications for the protocols for anonymous downloading and hidden seeding on this wiki. The link that you provided is going to take up a few weeks of my spare time. Thank you!

gardnr 9y ago

> Tribler is the first client which continuously tries to improve upon the basic BitTorrent implementation by addressing some of the flaws. It implements, amongst others, remote search, streaming, channels and reputation-management. All these features are implemented in a completely distributed manner, not relying on any centralized component. Still, Tribler manages to remain fully backwards compatible with BitTorrent. > Lengthy documentation in the form of two master thesis documents is available. First is a general documentation of the tunnel and relay mechanism, Anonymous HD video streaming, .pdf 68 pages. Second is focused on encryption part, called Anonymous Internet: Anonymizing peer-to-peer traffic using applied cryptography, .pdf 85 pages. In addition, there are the specifications for the protocols for anonymous downloading and hidden seeding on this wiki. The link that you provided is going to take up a few weeks of my spare time. Thank you!