OneSwarm – Secure P2P made easy

As of late, the only way to share files among friends and and family has mostly been over Gnutella and BitTorrent networks, both of which are insecure and reveal identifiable online data such as your IP address. If you have been considering a more secure form of sharing, take a look at OneSwarm, developed by students from the University of Washington. Unlike conventional methods of file sharing, OneSwarm creates a secure tunnel between you and all the friends on your buddy list for sharing files with. OneSwarm offers a web-based interface that runs right from your favorite browser and has a very eye pleasing look. It has the ability to search for data within the cloud, stream audio and video data as it is downloading said file (thanks to on-the-fly transcoding), and has the ability to utilize the BitTorrent network for outside-the-cloud downloading/uploading. OneSwarm is basically a souped up DC++ for the rest of us. As of this writing, this program is still a research experiment and may still have unresolved issues or lacking features. The supported OSes are Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (x86 and x64 varieties).

DISCLAIMER: This software is intended for sharing files of legal nature amongst friends. The authors of this software, nor myself, can be held responsible for any illegal use.

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