From: "Elliott Mitchell" <ehem@...> ... Yes, which was why I said "the theoretical...". In theory, you can break any 160-bit hash with 2^160 work. These...
Hi, I'm running bit torrent in a lab, starting multiple instances on a single machine (with virtual IP address handled by the ModelNet emulation environment)....
dejank
dkostic@...
Sep 3, 2004 4:37 pm
5782
Shareaza has implemented something similar to bt for "trackerless" torrenting. When you do a torrent on Shareaza, whether connected to a tracker or not, you...
I am very well aware of Shareaza's support for exchanging source addresses but I don't like their message format (bencoded content in a BT message) and I don't...
... Why multiple instances? Multiple threads, async. I/O, or other approaches should provide the same benefits separate instances would (e.g. better...
BitTorrent currently uses sha-1, a different algorithm from the recently broken sha-0 and md5. While those attacks raise some concern, there aren't critical...
Hello group, A user has recently e-mailed me a torrent complaining that it doesn't work in my client (burst core v1.1.3, based on BT 3.4.2).. after some...
Hello there, Up here in Iceland, one has to pay for overseas upload/download but domestic traffic is free of charge. What I would like to do is to patch BT so...
Are there any particular parameters I can invoke to be much more aggressive about not playing with pure leechers? I would like to choke off pure leechers at...
I noticed there wasn't a RPM for SuSE on BitTorrent's download page so I made a RPM for SuSE users. I was hoping to have a link to my RPM put on BitTorrent's...
Eugene Johnson
kejohnson951@...
Sep 10, 2004 3:33 pm
5791
There are clients that allow you to restrict access to torrents you're downloading with by IP range already, Restricting yourself to domestic IPs may prove to...
... You must patch two codes: the incomming "accep"t and the outgoing conections. Just look for "accept()" and "connect()" calls in the source. -- Jesus Cea...
... I don't like enforcing unflexible ratios, - what you suggest means effectively capping your total upload stream when your download stream is low and it...
... One thing that always seems to get forgotten is that when you first start getting a torrent, you have no pieces, and so have no choice BUT to leech without...
... You didn't mention if you're running linux or win32. If you're on linux and you have a NAT gateway[1] there is an interesting way to apply traffic control...
... One of the features of libtorrent (libtorrent.sf.net) is to set such a ratio. It does a decent job at maintaining it. The biggest problem is just with big...
In response to the new law in California requiring those sharing video and audio data over the internet to disclose their email addresses, I am hereby...
John Hoffman
theshadow@...
Sep 23, 2004 5:47 pm
5800
... You can look at Karthik Tamilmanis work with credit based trading http://mnl.cs.sunysb.edu/home/karthik/BitTorrent/ /Martin Nilsson...
Can anyone help me out...I remember seeing a GPL project to run a torrent tracker via email. Basically, you set it loose on an email addy and it would send...
Howdy folks. Is there anywhere a spec available for the newly introduced KEY parameter of the tracker protocol? Seems that I can't find any description of that...
For the past week or so, Every torrent file I download has the exact same piece fail on me (1017) and I don't know why. smaller files download fine, and since...
Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. Will this affect connections to the trackers? Brian: Regarding the iptables solution, thanks for that also. I...
This bit of writing from Bruce Schneier's CRYPTO-GRAM may interest everyone following the SHA-1 discussion. It's a very high-level overview, but it very much...
Andrew Chen
voodoo@...
Sep 25, 2004 1:59 am
5806
To the original poster: How do you know, until after the fact, that you have an anti-social leecher? There will always be the selfish ones who take rather than...
Hi all: today I hit a bug in btlaunchmany.py: 93 93 : "print '%s died 6 times, added to dead list' % fil" this bug will be hit when I download more the 79 ...
I'm only a casual user of BT so I don't know much about this yet. I haven't been able to find much information about the "key flag", but my sister reports...
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