That's correct, Cubit does not keep track of the torrent specific seeders/leachers information, only the link to the torrent. A second pass over the returned results would be necessary to ascertain the current swarm status of the torrents.
Bernard David Barrett wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
