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RSS bittorrentOpen source hack could make mobiles vulnerable to prying ears
News Participants download the software and three months later they share the files created with others, via BitTorrent, for instance, Nohl said. If you are using a GSM phone - the 2G standard used by the majority of the... [26 Aug 2009]
How to recover from a data breach
Comment All software may have been patched, and everything may look normal, save for the fact that someone just posted your customer database on a BitTorrent site. The best defence against hackers trying to steal corporate data... [09 Feb 2009]
Sun launches second version of OpenSolaris
News New third-party software includes file indexing and search tool Tracker, the Songbird media player and the Transmission BitTorrent client, as well as Firefox 3 and OpenOffice 3.0. Sun has launched the second release of... [08 Dec 2008]
Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming Using BitTorrent
White Paper This paper proposes a peer-to-peer multimedia streaming solution based on the BitTorrent content-distribution protocol. First, it replaces the rarest-first chunk downloading policy of BitTorrent by a... [22 Oct 2008]
Analysis of BitTorrent-Like Protocols for On-Demand Stored Media Streaming
White Paper This paper develops analytic models that characterize the behavior of on-demand stored media content delivery using BitTorrent-like protocols. The models capture the effects of different piece selection policies,... [22 Oct 2008]
Analytical Model for BitTorrent-Based Live Video Streaming
White Paper This paper provides an analytical model to inform the design of BitTorrent-based live video streaming solutions. Peer-to-peer live video streaming over the Internet has been measured to support over 100,000 concurrent... [22 Oct 2008]
Peer-Assisted On-Demand Streaming of Stored Media Using BitTorrent-Like Protocols
White Paper With BitTorrent-like protocols a client may download a file from a large and changing set of peers, using connections of heterogeneous and time-varying bandwidths. This paper considers an approach to peer-assisted... [22 Oct 2008]
GridTorrent Framework: A High-Performance Data Transfer and Data Sharing Framework for Scientific Computing
White Paper This paper introduces an architecture to manage data distributions in a collaborative fashion through a GridTorrent Framework (GTF) whose data transfer mechanism inspired by Bittorrent. This paper presents performance... [22 Oct 2008]
The Peer-to-Peer Live Video Streaming for Handheld Devices
White Paper The earlier development and adaptation of the P2P technology in handheld devices focused on static content sharing protocols such as Gnuttela and BitTorrent. With the increasing capabilities of handheld devices, this... [22 Oct 2008]
A BitTorrent-Driven Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
White Paper BitTorrent is a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol that utilizes a central server, known as a "Tracker", to coordinate connections between peers in a "Swarm", a term used to describe a BitTorrent... [14 Oct 2008]
Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm
AS Profile Peter 'brokep' Sunde and Gottfrid 'anakata' Svartholm are two of the operators running Swedish website The Pirate Bay, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker. The site, initially established in 2003, claims it is a... [07 Oct 2008]
WebTorrent: A BitTorrent Extension for High Availability Servers
White Paper This paper proposes a WebTorrent system based on BitTorrent that will leverage the resources of the clients to help the server make the content more available. Achieving content high-availability is one of the most... [19 Sep 2008]
Replication in Bandwidth-Symmetric BitTorrent Networks
White Paper The popular and well-known BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol offers fast file distribution in a highly scalable way. This paper however focuses on the usage of the BitTorrent protocol in homogeneous local... [11 Jul 2008]
An Amortized Tit-for-Tat Protocol for Exchanging Bandwidth Instead of Content in P2P Networks
White Paper The principle of the incentive mechanisms in current content sharing P2P networks such as BitTorrent is to have peers exchange content of mutual interest. Incentives for resource sharing are crucial for the proper... [11 Jul 2008]
Personal Firewalls - Testing Robustness
White Paper A third party bitTorrent application was also installed mimicking a home installation of a download application. Consumers require personal firewalls that are highly secure, easy to use, configurable and up-to-date with... [25 Jun 2008]
