Konspire2b
konspire2b is a peer-to-peer network designed and implemented by Jason Rohrer. Clients/nodes can subscribe to channels and receive all incoming files from the channels they are subscribed to. Broadcasters can create channels and broadcast files to all the subscribers.
This makes konspire2b markedly different from traditional file sharing software, where users search for files on connected systems. Instead, a konspire2b user is encouraged to simply subscribe to some channels of interest, let the software run for a few hours, and then look at the files they have received.
Any konspire2b user can create new channels. In order to broadcast files in a channel, a user needs to possess its private key. This private key can be shared among several users to allow for collaboratively run channels.
There is currently a single client implementation called kast. It uses a browser-based user interface. In its present implementation, konspire2b suffers from high protocol overhead for the broadcasting of "announcement" messages for files.
All konspire2b-related software is open source under the GNU GPL. The konspire2b website uses a wiki for the purpose of documentation and brainstorming.
konspire2b succeeds the now defunct konspire network, a more traditional file client/server based file sharing application written in Java. Developer Jason Rohrer emphasizes that konspire2b was written in C++ instead.
Other projects by Jason Rohrer:
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