8mo ago

Showcase Tenfingers: what to share?

Hello, I'm Valmond creator of the Tenfingers sharing protocol & implementation.

To make it more motivating for people to try it out, what should I share to showcase its abilities? It can be rougly anything up to say a gigabyte.

I'm thinking about music, video, parts of wikipedia, ...

Legal of course.

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Cheers & thanks!

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if I'm reading this right, it's a bit like ipfs+dht. is this a content-addressable system?
anyway, you should probably have demos of
large files (like a Linux disk image), to demonstrate consistency in transfer.
Video stream, to demonstrate performance and low latency.
multiple files shared with many peers at once, to demonstrate scalability
sharing with low bandwidth and high latency, to demonstrate possible mobile use cases.
thoughts:
the logo is very close to wireguard's.
if the data is stored on peers, that means there must always be people with free storage online for it to work? how much storage is needed? is that data in plaintext? could a bad actor push illegal content to peers without them knowing?
also, please convert the whitepaper to a format that is actually readable. rtf? really?
- Thanks, good ideas and recommendations!
  The data is overshared, so several nodes store your data (as you store theirs. The storage requirements are roughly your data size times the number of over shares. The number of overshares is confugurable on a per data basis), this makes the availability high.
  The data is encrypted with AES 256 (CTR) so nodes do not know what they are storing.
  It's hard to invent new logos I guess, at least mine is blue and laying on the side...
  It might feel like IPFS but the underlying tech is completely different, so it's not a DHT but uses dynamic links, which means that you can update your shared data without the need to re distribute the link file.
  Ha ha point taken, I'll convert it to a better format.
  
  i'm interested in the dynamic linking, what mechanism is used to stop situations like left-pad or the pypi incident where a file is removed replaced with a malicious alternative?
Usually, sharing protocols are invented either by people who try to make a shitload of money from it or by people who are already somebody. Who are you?
- I didn't know there were entry requirements :-)
  It's FOSS so no money involved, no crypto or other bs.
  As for who I am, why on earth would that matter?
  
  entry requirements
  No, just curious :)
What is it? The link is http and times out for me
- Bizarre, it works well for me?
  It's http://www.tenfingers.org

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