[p2p-hackers] p2p framework

[Matthias Fischmann]

a few remarks:

 - GNUnet: i had a look at it a while ago and my estimate then was
   that it would die away.  too many design decisions are interwoven
   in too much an ad-hoc fashion.  some of those decisions (crypto
   issues, the overlay topology, etc.) have become obsolete, but
   cannot be replaced without breaking the whole thing.  i myself
   can't see any reason for ever touching it again.

 - tor (the onion router) is not a p2p *framework*, but a very
   specific application for anonymizing tcp streams in a p2p way.
   good design, though, and it might contain some code that can be
   reused for other projects.  anonymity is always a good thing to
   start from.  but you might have other problems to address
   first.

 - i know very little about i2p, but i think it is another chaum mix
   for anonymizing tcp streams.  in contrast to tor, it doesn't
   connect to the non-i2p world as nicely, which may have made the
   design simpler and more elegant.  same as above, though: don't
   you need something else?

cheers,
matthias



On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:35:00AM +0100, Bram Neijt wrote:
> To: "Peer-to-peer development." <p2p-hackers at zgp.org>
> From: Bram Neijt <bneijt at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:35:00 +0100
> Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] p2p framework
> 
> I'm currently trying to document some P2P information, and found allot
> of networks and frameworks being similar (except maybe for ports).
> 
> The most advanced, I think, is currently GNUnet ( www.gnunet.org ),
> but this is also slow in development because of it's large amount of
> features and complexity.
> Most frameworks also seem big on security an annonymity (like I2P, Tor
> union router).
> 
> So you might be missing Tor, I2P and GNUnet.
> 
> Good luck,
>   Bram
> 
> On 11/29/05, Salem Mark <unixsmaxer at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been looking for a suitable P2P framework to build my application
> > upon. I came across Gnutella, which in its pure architecture suffers from
> > scalability problems due to flooding. I also came ascross JXTA. However, I
> > found it to be complex and huge.
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