In short: WASTE is a P2P system similar to Gnutella except that communication is encrypted, and the network is a mesh intended for small groups of users (10-50) only. It was written by Justin Frankel of Nullsoft and released under the GPL, same as Gnutella, and pulled from Nullsoft's website shortly after it was posted. Nullsoft's parent company AOL says that the GPL is invalid in this case, therefore interested developers are advised to not copy code from WASTE but rather write from scratch. Use the source code as general concept, it needs many fixes and improvements anyway.
What does it do?:
Last updated: 3/8/2004
Download:
Download WASTE v. 1.4a2 for Windows - See Sourceforge Project for latest.
Sourceforge Home Page a mirror of original release
Sourceforge Project contains development efforts and a forum
Other Versions:
WASTE GTK2+ Sourceforge CVS
WASTE GTK2+ Developer page & Screen shotswaste.globaldisarray.org (stopped development Oct. 2003) Windows client v. 1.3c, UNIX server
News:
CNN Article about Encrypted P2P including WASTE
Support, Misc.:
WASTE Yahoo Group userland: how to install and use WASTE
The GNU C Library useful reference for understanding WASTE "server"'s UNIX networking code