Peer-To-Peer

This book presents the goals that drive the developers of the best-known peer-to-peer systems, the problems they've faced, and the technical solutions they've found. The contributors are leading developers of well-known peer-to- peer systems, such as Gnutella, Freenet, Jabber, Popular Power, SETI@Home, Red Rover, Publius, Free Haven, Groove Networks, and Reputation Technologies. Topics include metadata, performance, trust, resource allocation, reputation, security, and gateways between systems.

Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly & Associates, specializing in books on Linux and programming. Most recently, he edited Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies.

Preface

vii

Andy Oram

Part I: Context and Overview

A Network of Peers: Peer-to-Peer Models Through the History of the Internet

3

(18)

Nelson Minar

Marc Hedlund

Listening to Napster

21

(17)

Clay Shirky

Remaking the Peer-to-Peer Meme

38

(21)

Tim O'Reilly

The Cornucopia of the Commons

59

(8)

Dan Bricklin

Part II: Projects

SETI@home

67

(10)

David Anderson

Jabber: Conversational Technologies

77

(12)

Jeremie Miller

Mixmaster Remailers

89

(5)

Adam Langley

Gnutella

94

(29)

Gene Kan

Freenet

123

(10)

Adam Langley

Red Rover

133

(12)

Alan Brown

Publius

145

(14)

Marc Waldman

Lorrie Faith Cranor

Avi Rubin

Free Haven

159

(32)

Roger Dingledine

Michael J. Freedman

David Molnar

Part III: Technical Topics

Metadata

191

(12)

Rael Dornfest

Dan Brickley

Performance

203

(39)

Theodore Hong

Trust

242

(29)

Marc Waldman

Lorrie Faith Cranor

Avi Rubin

Accountability

271

(70)

Roger Dingledine

Michael J. Freedman

David Molnar

Reputation

341

(13)

Richard Lethin

Security

354

(27)

Jon Udell

Nimisha Asthagiri

Walter Tuvell

Interoperability Through Gateways

381

(12)

Brandon Wiley

Afterword

393

(6)

Andy Oram

Appendix: Directory of Peer-to-Peer Projects

399

(4)

Contributors

403

(6)

Index

409

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