Re: [Blocks-development] Life Signs

[Blat F. <pet...@ho...>]

Blocks was discontinued primarily because I ran out
of freetime. I work on Wall St and things can get
pretty busy here from time to time, not to mention
I started playing Counterstrike :-) Also, Blocks
reached a point where it had demonstrated just about
everything that I set out to show...

* Encrypted anonymous file transfer is feasible.
* Packet relay networks are feasible and not too slow.
* Broadcasting queries to everyone is not always
  necessary and broadcast adverts (and therefore
  instant and totally anonymous searches) are feasible.
* Distribution of large files (>100Mb) is practicable
  in a P2P network. To my knowledge Blocks is the
  only P2P network which addresses this.

Competing with Napster/GNUtella/Bearshare/etc was
not one of the original objectives, and there would
be little academic interest in continuing with the
current code base. If Blocks were to be continued I
would suggest that Blocks2 consist of seperate client
and server components so that custom clients could
be built in a GNUtella fashion and perhaps integrate
some of Michaels ideas about Webs-Of-Trust.

Michael is still flying the Blocks flag at
http://www.mspencer.net/blocks where you can
find the binaries and the full source code,
and I think he's still running a public server
as well.

If you are mathematically inclined you might like
to check out SNAKE as well which, at one point,
I was considering integrating with Blocks as an
authentication mechanism.
http://www.mspencer.net/snake

ttfn

PG.


>From: "Tod D. Ihde" <to...@je...>
>To: blo...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Blocks-development] Life Signs
>Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 10:45:09 -0500
>
>Well, that's not good! :(
>
>Is/was the source code GPL'ed? Do you know where I could get my grubby
>little hands on it?
>
>It was an interesting project, and one of the 1st I saw that would work
>cross-platform (Well, Linux & Windows, but that's better than most).
>
>Was there a reason why it was discontinued?
>
>  Tod.
>
>
>On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:33:49AM +0000, Blat Froop wrote:
> > Hey Tod,
> >
> > alas Blocks is no more. Michael is still running a blocks
> > node at mspenecer.net but the project is no longer in
> > development. I think itwas an interesting [rpject tho,
> > and certainly demonstrated that anonymous P2P file
> > sharing is a definte possibility for the future.
> >
> > ttfn
> >
> > PG.
> >
>
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