No more torrents.....

[pete wright]

>
> A hybrid of bnbt, xbnbt, xbtt, and something else that I don't recall
> the name of.  We ran the seeders from py-bittornado in curses mode in
> about 15 screen sessions.. by hand.
>
> The tracker/indexer code had an open http connect proxy in it (!).
> The code was particularly difficult to work with and looked extremely
> light for defensive programming.  (string buffer overflows, the
> works).
>
> The bottom line is the nice indexer / tracker / stats thing we had
> isn't something I feel we can trust.
>
> I do believe we can/should publish trackerless/dht torrent files to go
> with the release binaries.
>
> Perhaps an initial web-seed might work, otherwise we could have a few
> folks with good ftp connectivity do an initial seed from the ftp
> files.


I would be very much be willing to assist with seeding if we make dht
torrent files available from my nodes located in downtown Los Angeles
for west-coast and APAC network presence.

as an aside:
I have been running libtorrent/rtorrent for a bit and it seems like a
pretty decent platform for building on.  having said that - I am not a
security researcher and would be keen to hear if libtorrent/rotrrent
suffers from these similar issues?


-pete

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pete wright
www.nycbug.org
@nomadlogicLA