Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:36:46 GMT  <== Computers ==> 

Howard Wen at ONLamp.com - there's a new Peer-to-peer protocol, that makes tracing users difficult. Mute is the creation of Jason Rohrer. Haven't tried it. [clairefiles]

Jason Rohrer has devised what could be the next technological headache for organizations like the RIAA: a P2P system that can mask the identity (or, at least, the IP address) of each user connected to it. Figuratively, he's done it by letting out the ants to ruin the RIAA's picnic.

Rohrer, a 26-year-old programmer from Potsdam, New York, found inspiration in the way ants stream toward a food source. From observing the creatures' behavior, he mapped out a networking method that functions similarly -- essentially, a shared file is the food source, and clients on the network are the ants seeking the food. He then wrote his own P2P program putting this theory to practice and christened it MUTE. Developed entirely in C++ and released as open source, the program runs on Linux, Win32, and Mac OS X.

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