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new *fast* version of BitTorrent out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bram Cohen)
Sat Jul 21 13:41:51 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:18:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
To: p2p-hackers@zgp.org,
People who supposedly write code <coderpunks@toad.com>,
Crypto List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>,
BitTorrent@yahoogroups.com
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Version 1.0.5 of BitTorrent is out, you can get it here -
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
All the encryption is now being done in C, as a result of which all that
old slowness has disappeared, resulting in a product which will happily
utilize your whole net connection.
Also in this release is a completely rewritten README.txt and
miscellaneous improvements/cleanups.
This version *should* work under Windows and MacOS X, but I don't have
machines which run those.
The next version will have platform-specific executable distributions
which don't require you have the python development libraries installed to
build them. I need volunteers for Windows and OSX build master!
Coming up - hex instead of base-32 encoding, and miscellaneous under the
hood improvements to prepare for the creation of torrent:// urls, a
prospect I'm all excited about.
-Bram Cohen
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
-- John Maynard Keynes
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