... The assumption that the same files can not be finded in the filesharing network is false. Actually, when a torrent die and Shareaza users have incomplete ...
i have one question, if an isp is using a packet shaper will it stop the peers and seeds from connecting to me? cause all i do is sit there and just constantly...
Keith Smith
keithsmith_32@...
Aug 10, 2004 4:19 pm
5727
The following patch by Connelly Barnes adds float bencode and bdecode support to bencode.py While bittorrent itself doesn't need float bencoding, its CVS is...
Hi! Whenever I start btdownloadcurses.py, in order to download a file, it starts multiple copies of the btdownloadcurses.py. These can only be seen in the...
float support will never be added to the official bencode specification, because an important property of bencode is: bencode(bdecode(x)) == x This is...
John Hoffman
theshadow@...
Aug 10, 2004 8:16 pm
5730
... _I_'m assuming something? Seems like you're almost agreeing that it is a non-trivial exercise to find the same file on Shareaza... ... Yes, the Internet is...
Elliott Mitchell
ehem@...
Aug 10, 2004 11:46 pm
5731
... Let me settle this very quickly. BitTorrent has a VERY specific purpose: The mass distribution of LEGITIMATE data. The assumption is made that the owner...
John Hoffman
theshadow@...
Aug 11, 2004 3:59 am
5732
... He said that having different hashes makes it harder to find the file. Finding a file by hash is a trivial exercise. ... That's not an ideal solution b/c...
I'm receiving a high number of keep-alive messages with LimeWire: constantly ~40 keep-alive msgs/sec from about 300 BT connections. At what interval are you...
Who is sending those? I have also seen (once or twice) piece messages not containing any data which I could not possibly have requested. mfg gregorio...
... Three key things, first, notice the key word, "rumor". Second, this is a week varient of SHA-1, not SHA-1 itself. Third, so far they're only talking about...
Elliott Mitchell
ehem@...
Aug 19, 2004 9:27 pm
5738
... Hmmm... you could already do this "outside" of the protocol, by adding custom fields to the torrent. If it's not in the protocol, however, it can't be...
... This is referred to in the lisp world as read/write consistency. ... In Common Lisp/Scheme, it has been done 20 years ago. See for instance Burger, Robert...
... As the way the content is identified can be determining the type of content is transmitted. BitTorrent can be quite useful to single and little groups to...
... This because the .torrent file don't contain the standard hashes of the individual files (SHA-1, TTH, CMD4). Put the hashes and the exercise is trivial. ...
It's somewhat sensationalist on both yours and Slashdot's part to call either algorithm "broken". All that has happened so far is that someone (allegedly)...
... The only impact for BitTorrent is the possibility for malicious seeding of incorrect pieces with correct hash, in a remote future. By that time we will...
... Don't fix things that don't need to be fixed. I do not like fixed chunk sizes (or rather piece lengths) because it doesn't make the implementation easier...
... If there is a break and it is severe, then they could start seeding incorrect pieces *now*. So _if_ there is a break, then BT definitely has a problem...
Elliott Mitchell
ehem@...
Aug 20, 2004 9:33 pm
5748
... I just copy/pasted things. ... All? The goal/purpose of secure hashing algorightms is to make it infeasable to compute/find collissions. This goal was...
... So far all I've seen is a single pair of strings that have the same hash value. This could be obtained with a lot of luck. There seems to be more than this...
Elliott Mitchell
ehem@...
Aug 23, 2004 10:30 pm
5750
I think as a measure to increase performance in an environment of unreliable trackers it would be helpful to have messages for requesting/sending lists of peer...
... unreliable ... of ... using some ... that ... extension ... I ... no ... order and ... Why little-endian for the port number? And what about DoS attacks?...
... How does this help? I can see this possibly reducing the load on trackers somewhat (something worthy of experimentation), but this doesn't help ...
Elliott Mitchell
ehem@...
Aug 25, 2004 9:13 pm
5753
Elliott Mitchell wrote: <snip> ... Last time I checked there were some two hundred something message descriptors still unused. mfg...
... I can use big endian port numbers if you prefer, - I'm really not married to any byte order. As far as DoS attacks are concerned, we have a certain...
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