We are still actively developing OneSwarm, both general maintenance to keep out bugs that pop up, and implementing new features. Best place to follow development is to look at the GitHub project. https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm You description is pretty accurate. Users can download files from within the network, those downloads are designed to be anonymous and be really hard for an adversary to track. If the desired file isn't on the network they can _manually_ fall back to download it as a "normal" torrent (which isn't anonymous) and chose to share it in the private network. Let me know if you have any other questions and thank for "...OneSwarm is the the most interesting p2p project I've heard of in a very long time."! // Tomas

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Barrett <dbarrett@quinthar.com> Date: Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 10:00 PM Subject: [p2p-hackers] OneSwarm status? To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks <p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com>

I think OneSwarm is the the most interesting p2p project I've heard of in a very long time. If I understand it correctly, OneSwarm is a standard BitTorrent client that uses an anonymizing layer as a "read through cache". So it'll attempt to download the torrent anonymously from other OneSwarm nodes, only falling back on the (non-anonymous) torrent if needed. I think it's a very clever design, and I'm curious if anybody has any recent, real-world experience with it? Is the project still moving forward?

And perhaps most importantly: how long until this is built in to one of the major torrent clients and enabled by default?

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