Strange sounding program here

[napho]

Have you ever wished that you could search your computer, and other people's shared files just as easily as you can search the web? If so, Locutus is the answer to your wish.
Background
Peer-to-peer has always been about helping people to effectively find information. Napster used a centralized approach to find music. Gnutella broadened this to other file-types and employed a decentralized but inefficient mechanism to search for information. More recently, Kazaa and other similar applications reintroduced an element of centralization to make searching more efficient.
The Next Level of P2P
Locutus takes P2P to the next level. It employs a completely decentralized search, but avoids the inefficiencies and lack of scalability of a broadcast search. Rather than just looking at filenames, it scans documents using a technique similar to WWW search engines - allowing users to search for keywords inside supported file-formats (which include Microsoft Word and Microsoft Powerpoint files). Locutus is also the first P2P file-sharing application to focus on security. With Locutus Enterprise, you get flexible control who has access to your documents - protected by military-grade encryption.


http://locut.us/index.php/news

[JackSpratts]

it's ian clarke from freenet, he was looking for beta testers last month. it sounds great, perfect for in-house lans and maybe even off net wi-fi - but it's effing huge.

- js.