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Old 04-05-02, 01:11 AM   #59
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Finally the Moral of the Story for the people who still don't get "it"

This article or post is not about "hacking" it is about how the p2p network of KaZaA works.

Basically it can be summarised this way. The client (your kazaa) connects to a supernode (it exchanges a key that was created by the value you entered in for your username...KaZaA created a password automatically "behind the scenes" and added the value of the username you put in with the random password it created. XORed those values and then encrypted them with PGP-key)

Upon connecting to a supernode your client gives its PGP-key (the password i just mentioned above) to the KaZaA-sErver (superpeer) that it connects to...it then gives you its pgp-key back which your client returns the value back at which point the server gives you a little more of the pgp-code then your client just repeats back what the supernode tells it.

Basically what we have done here is to go throught this process manually using the very excellent Getright Webbrowser as our go-between and "psuedo-fasttrack client"

Okay geniuses get to work.

and Snowman i want those links, please...thank-you
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