- Open source. Hooray!
- Cross platform. OneSwarm is written in Java and they have binaries for OS X, Windows, and Linux.
- Friend-to-friend. I'm not interested in sharing with the world, just amongst my friends.
- BitTorrent based transfers. That means swarming for common files shared among your friends. My previous F2F client WASTE doesn't offer that.
- Point to point SSL encryption. I feel much better about SSL than the encryption scheme used by WASTE.
- Google Talk integration. OneSwarm piggybacks key distribution over GTalk. That really makes life easy.
- Web interface. It lends itself to remote administration.
OneSwarm is what I've been waiting for!
OneSwarm is a friend-to-friend (F2F) file sharing network built on BitTorrent and SSL. This is an idea I've been tossing around for awhile and now, I'm happy to say, I don't have to write it myself. Here are the main selling points:
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The future also looks good, here are the planned features for version 0.7:
http://wiki.oneswarm.org/index.php/Version_0.7
In my opinion, the only thing that this idea needs to be perfect is to use XMPP standards.
XMPP would give to this idea much more extensibility, popularity and surely a lot of Jabber clients would be pleased to incorporate p2p neckwork functionality (via a plugin if not built-in).
It would be really great if this was a Jabber/XMPP extension to the protocol. XMPP is getting popular, specially after Google Talk and Google Wave.
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