Re: [GSoC] GNUnet binary distribution system

2014-03-11 Thread Mark H Weaver
Pierre-Antoine Rault writes: > On 11/03/2014 04:35, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> FWIW, I think it might be worthwhile to support BitTorrent magnet >> links as well, as a middle ground between these two extremes. Most >> users will not be able to host binaries via HTTP; even if they have >> a server,

Re: [GNUnet-developers] [GSoC] GNUnet binary distribution system

2014-03-11 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 03/11/2014 12:19 AM, Pierre-Antoine Rault wrote: >> The initial discussion [0] left open the question of where >> binaries themselves should be stored. A possibility would be to >> use GNUnet’s DHT simply as a discovery mechanism, and then to >> establish a connection directly to the user’s mac

Re: [GSoC] GNUnet binary distribution system

2014-03-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pierre-Antoine Rault skribis: > On 10/03/2014 22:09, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> The initial discussion [0] left open the question of where >> binaries themselves should be stored. A possibility would be to >> use GNUnet’s DHT simply as a discovery mechanism, and then to >> establish a con

Re: [GSoC] GNUnet binary distribution system

2014-03-11 Thread Pierre-Antoine Rault
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/2014 04:35, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Pierre-Antoine Rault writes: > >> On 10/03/2014 22:09, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> >>> The initial discussion [0] left open the question of where >>> binaries themselves should be stored. A possibility wo

Re: [GSoC] GNUnet binary distribution system

2014-03-10 Thread Mark H Weaver
Pierre-Antoine Rault writes: > On 10/03/2014 22:09, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> >> The initial discussion [0] left open the question of where >> binaries themselves should be stored. A possibility would be to >> use GNUnet’s DHT simply as a discovery mechanism, and then to >> establish a connecti

Re: [GSoC] GNUnet binary distribution system

2014-03-10 Thread Pierre-Antoine Rault
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 10/03/2014 22:09, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Pierre-Antoine Rault skribis: > >> Having worked with libtorrent and kademila, i am quite familiar >> with dht and P2P, and I think GNUnet shouldn't be much difficult >> to adapt to. I am thus rea

Re: [GNUnet-developers] [GSoC] GNUnet binary distribution system

2014-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christian Grothoff skribis: > On 03/10/2014 10:09 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> The initial discussion [0] left open the question of where binaries >> themselves should be stored. A possibility would be to use GNUnet’s >> DHT simply as a discovery mechanism, and then to establish a >> connectio

Re: [GNUnet-developers] [GSoC] GNUnet binary distribution system

2014-03-10 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 03/10/2014 10:09 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The initial discussion [0] left open the question of where binaries > themselves should be stored. A possibility would be to use GNUnet’s > DHT simply as a discovery mechanism, and then to establish a > connection directly to the user’s machine, wh

Re: [GSoC] GNUnet binary distribution system

2014-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Thanks for your proposal! Pierre-Antoine Rault skribis: > Having worked with libtorrent and kademila, i am quite familiar with dht > and P2P, and I think GNUnet shouldn't be much difficult to adapt to. I > am thus reading info about GNUnet, but I already have some features in > mind (not su

[GSoC] GNUnet binary distribution system

2014-03-10 Thread Pierre-Antoine Rault
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Guix, I've been lurking and tweaking for some time now on #guix and have found Guix to be of much interest. Recently hydra has come offline and i've understood the need of a decentralized network (or at least some redundancy) for a the binary distr