Ah, got it. Does it also provide a count of seeders/leachers for the torrents in the search result? I'm guessing this might need to be a second-pass operation (contact the tracker for each torrent) once the results have been obtained.
-david Bernard Wong wrote: > Currently, torrents are explicitly injected into the Cubit overlay -- > the plugin does not search for previously downloaded torrents. However, > it is an option we are planning to introduce in a later release. > > Bernard > > David Barrett wrote: >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
