Re: [Blocks-development] Life Signs

[Tod D. I. <to...@je...>]

Ahh. Yes, finding time is a hassle, even here. (I got hooked on CS 3 months
ago, so I know how _that_ goes, as well. :)

I guess I missed the word "prototype" in there. My bad. :(

I haven't looked at the code, primarily because I suck at C(++). I just
liked it because it worked fairly well, and was pretty quick. (At least,
IIRC).

I shall check out snake. (No, I suck rocks at math, as well. Theory I'm good
with, but I fail with hard numbers.)

 Thankee Sai.
   Tod.


On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:01:32PM +0000, Blat Froop wrote:
> 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.
> 

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