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The idea of piggybacking on bittorrent DHT network is great :) Just out of interest, do you know of any other systems that do that?
by xyzzy123 11y ago
The idea of piggybacking on bittorrent DHT network is great :)
Just out of interest, do you know of any other systems that do that?
- danoctavian 11y agoWell BitTorrent's own project Bleep uses the Bittorrent network as well. Their protocol is more complex however. Their goals are to hide who is talking who, from entities that might just be scraping the DHT. With bluntly, you can tell who is talking to who, by looking at what peers advertised on the rendezvous node. Because they have control over the bittorrent protocol, they can go ahead and make changes to it that make NAT penetration easier (a 3rd party peer with a public address acts as a facilitator for putting 2 peers behind NAT in contact) or they can allow for arbitrary data to be stored in the DHT.
- buovjaga 11y agoRetroshare uses Bittorrent DHT http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
- rndmind 11y agoRetroshare is fantastic!
- rakoo 11y agoI do the same in rakoshare (https://github.com/rakoo/rakoshare https://github.com/rakoo/rakoshare). Humans exchange a well-known id, from which a rendez-vous id is derived. This rendez-vous id is used for all interested peers to meet and exchange ips and ports. After that, it's the job of every one to try to connect to the other side. Sadly, if there's a NAT on each side, it's not enough...
- rndmind 11y agoretroshare uses DHT It also uses PGP keys to facilitate encryption, authenticity, and a comprehensive web of trust