[e-privacy] MUTE File Sharing

[Andrea Glorioso]

Qualcuno lo conosce e/o ha avuto l'occasione di usarlo?

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http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/

MUTE File Sharing is a new peer-to-peer network that provides easy
search-and-download functionality while also protecting your privacy.

Following the death of Napster, all of  the file sharing networks that
rose to  main-stream popularity  were decentralized. The  most popular
networks include  Gnutella  (which  powers  Limewire,  BearShare,  and
Morpheus)  and   FastTrack  (which powers   KaZaA  and  Grokster). The
decentralization  provides  legal  protection for  the  companies that
distribute the  software, since they do not  have to run any component
of the network themselves: once you get  the software, you become part
of the network,  and  the network  could survive  even if  the  parent
company disappears.

All of these networks  operate as a  web  or mesh of neighboring  node
connections. Your node  connects to a few other  nodes in the network,
and those nodes connect to a few other nodes, which in turn connect to
a few other  nodes, and so on. This  layout is similar to a  real-life
social  network: you know people,  and those people know other people,
who in turn know other people, and so on.

[...]

The main  way that MUTE  protects  your privacy is  by avoiding direct
connections  between downloaders and  uploaders. Earlier, we described
how search requests  are sent  around  standard networks: you send   a
search to your neighbors, and they send it to  their neighbors, who in
turn send it to  their neighbors, and so  on. By using the  network to
route search requests, these networks deliver  a particular request to
many  nodes  without making direct    connections to any  of them.  Of
course, when it  comes time  to  transfer a  file, these networks  use
direct connections.

MUTE routes all messages, including  search requests, search  results,
and file transfers, through the network of neighbor connections. Thus,
though you know the  Internet addresses of  your neighbors, you do not
know the Internet address of the node you are downloading from.

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ciao,

andrea
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