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Originally Posted by multi
waste would be perfect for the organising and getting the releases varified ..ect
(most likely they will..some diehard irc ones will stick to that of course)
i was wondering..
maybe something like ants or mute to distribute the links to the users..?
gnutella?
or an app just for getting the links?
like a specialised newsreader..
a plugin for firefox?
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To implement a SuprNova+BT style infrastructrure decentrally you would still need a publicly trusted party whom you would believe to do a good screening job for the new releases. This in itself is no problem, e.g. the present SuprNova moderator crew would probably be widely trusted as a good screening team. You wouldn't be downloading torrent links from any websites but a willing screener/publisher group could still use a website to make known its digital identity in the form of say a public encryption key. Then it could use any available channels to send out timestamped and digitally signed torrent lists. On the client end there would have to be a corresponding mechanism to check the digital signatures and to ignore torrents from untrusted parties (nothing too fancy).
If the screener/publisher team would desire further anonymity they could use e.g. MUTE for the initial torrent distribution. After being pushed through MUTE the torrents could be safely (from the point of view of the screening team) distributed on any puclic channels and networks.
While the security issues for possible screener/publisher teams are quite solvable with arrangements like above, decentralizing the tracker functionality and protecting the anonymity of the original seeds are challenges on their own.
- tg
