Does Cubit only work on files that you are actively seeding, or does it search all files/torrents you've previously downloaded and stopped?
-david Bernard Wong wrote: > We are writing to announce Cubit, a new open-source p2p overlay > that enables the Azureus BitTorrent client to look up torrents > via approximate keyword search. > > As you may well be aware, BitTorrent is a completely decentralized > protocol for downloading content. With the later addition of the > "tracker-less" DHT to the BT protocol, users today can download a > torrent without having to rely on any centralized, hence vulnerable, > components. > > However, the BitTorrent protocol does not address the issue of how to > find the torrent you want to download, and have to rely on websites, > such as piratebay, for looking up torrents. Since these lookups are > intrinsically "fuzzy" (i.e. the keywords may be partial and misspelled), > standard DHT techniques, which only support precise keyword lookup, are > not applicable. As a result, both legal and technical attacks have > targeted the torrent aggregators, most recently culminating in RIAA > temporarily shutting down piratebay. > > Cubit completely decentralizes the lookup process through an efficient, > light-weight peer-to-peer overlay that can perform approximate matches. > It performs searches without relying on any centralized components, and > therefore is immune to legal and technical attacks targeting torrent > aggregators. Our implementation works as a plug-in for the popular > Azureus application -- Cubit provides an additional page from which you > can issue your searches and select the responses, all within a purely > peer-to-peer application. > > For the technically oriented: the central insight behind Cubit is to > create a keyword metric space that captures the relative similarity of > keywords, to assign portions of this space to nodes in a light-weight > overlay and to resolve queries by efficiently routing them through this > space. The gritty technical details can be found on the papers and code > at our website. > > The plugin and GPL source-files are available at: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/cubit/ > > Additional information about the system can be found at: > http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~bwong/cubit/ > > Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. > > Best, > Bernard, > Alex, > Gun. > > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
