http://www.skype.com/ The claimed advantages over stuff like FWD are better-than-phone quality (see http://wmf.editthispage.com/2003/08/07 ) and end-to-end...
Hi People, I am from brazil and I am finishing my faculty. My conclusion work is about p2p. I propoused to implement a framework (java) using p2p techniques...
... I don't know about Skype, but I know that Packet8 uses some mysterious technology to allow NAT-to-NAT calls without a relay. The details of how this works...
... This is something that bothers me about Skype and actually bothers me about Kazaa as well. Something like a VoIP client really needs to use public...
There's GiFT (Gnu Isn't Fast Track), who reverse-engineered the protocol fairly quickly but have since been locked out. (The FastTrack network started...
David Beckemeyer of Earthlink says of skype, from another list: Interesting. But since they apparently went with proprietary protocols it looks like they will...
Ah, yes, brokered UDP traversal of a NAT. Bryan Ford of MIT describes this here: http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~baford/nat/draft-ford-natp2p-00.txt and here:...
Well, the Skype site now has posted some limited technical info. It looks like they are doing application level routing using relay peers which have public IP...
Howdy, all Tom Munnecke and I seek your assistance. (Does that sound too much like Nigerian spam?) Tom is on a quest for ways that people could engage in ...
One of my recent interests has been p2p file sharing in an access-controlled environment instead of the current "free for all" paradigm. This area is deserving...
Hi there! Well, I am working on my conclusion work at faculty and now I have to study 2 topics: - P2P resilience - Peer discover techniques Resilience is not...
... Here are the three major techniques: 1. Rendezvous/DNS-SD/SLP/UPnP 2. Centralized, well known peers 3. Transitive introduction (over to you, Zooko) -- Wes...
... I would also add: 4. Beacon style introductions where peers rendezvous at a specific "point". This could be a DNS cache via a DNS lookup, locality within...
Justin Chapweske
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Sep 19, 2003 9:04 pm
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Is there a way to discover peer using flooding protocols, link multicast or something like that? I am not finding papers about Rendezvous.... tks a lot thiago ...
and.. do you know where i can find something about that? something explaining how this techniques works. best reguards thiago ... From: "Wes Felter"...
... J> 4. Beacon style introductions where peers rendezvous at a J> specific "point". This could be a DNS cache via a DNS lookup, J> locality within a chord...
Hi, I am reading an article that describe how P2P Dynamic Networks works. This article tells that are 3 techniques to build peers: - simple peer - rendesvouz...
Here's a proposal for a low tech, de-centralized, remote authentication system with profile management. It's aimed at all those low security situations where...
The main security issue is the degree to which a user is already using the same username and password on multiple sites. - Lucas...
Lucas Gonze
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Sep 23, 2003 8:24 pm
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I think SEA would be very useful in low security situations like web discussion groups, on blogs in particular, and questionable in ecommerce sites....
Lucas Gonze
lgonze@...
Sep 23, 2003 8:29 pm
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... Ignore the actual protocol for a moment. Site alpha.com validates with Site bravo.com. Site Alpha knows that UserID="foo" + Password="bar" + ...
... At this stage I start to think about a trust model because that's what you're asking here: can the user trust alpha.com with their password? So, a...
What you really want is a setup where alpha.com doesn't get the password -- merely an authentication token. This is the basic idea behind passport. The point...
... A trivial version of this is A collects an ID+Password+URL from the user. It passes ID to URL and gets MD5(the current known password) back. If this...
On Mercredi, sep 24, 2003, at 05:57 America/New_York, Daniel Harris ... You should do that, but you should do that anyway. The reason why the security of the...