OneSwarm 0.6.2
OneSwarm… Currently popular peer-to-peer networks suffer from a lack of privacy. For applications like BitTorrent or Gnutella, sharing a file means exposing your behavior to anyone interested in monitoring it. OneSwarm is a new file sharing application developed by researchers at the University of Washington that improves privacy in peer-to-peer networks. Instead of communicating directly, sharing in OneSwarm is friend-to-friend; senders and receivers exchange data using multiple intermediaries in an overlay mesh. OneSwarm is built on (and backwards compatible with) BitTorrent, but includes numerous extensions to improve privacy while providing good performance: point-to-point encryption using SSL, source-address rewriting, and multi-path and multi-source downloading.
WHAT’S NEW
Version 0.6.2:
- Support for community servers
- A friends table that enables multi-friend operations, sorting by ratio, last date connected, etc.
- Rebuilt web UI with GWT 1.6
- Friend groups
- Remote access now permits saving files to the local machine
Version 0.6:
- Secure point-to-point chat
- Virtual directory hierarchies (i.e., tags)
- Set non-default save location during downloads
- Multi-key import
- Limit remote access based on IP ranges
- Change remote access password method from crypt -> SHA1+MD5 (for long password support)
- Option to not stream media files (improves performance when there are few sources)
- Fix ‘waiting for handshake’ bug that inhibits downloading if the client has been active for a while
- Fix parallel connections being closed too aggressively (causes friends to be disconnected)
- Fix rate limit not honored when there is a lot of downloading and forwarding going on
- Many miscellaneous bugfixes
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
