J-WASTE Project Plan Implementation and evaluation of WASTE peer-to-peer networking application

Abstract

WASTE [4] is an application for exchanging files and messages in a secure environment. WASTE allows you to create secure peer-to-peer mesh networks in an easy manner. WASTE uses Blowfish [10] encryption for transfering information and the RSA [7] public key cryp-tography for doing authentication. With this security, WASTE provides features like instant messaging, group chat and the ability to share, browse and transfer files. The WASTE pro-tocol does not rely on a central server but is completely distributed. WASTE has the ability to route traffic over the fastest existing link between communicating parties, even if that route goes through other nodes. WASTE also has the feature of load balancing traffic in the network. The creator of WASTE, Justin Frankel, is famous in the computer world. He is one of the co-founders of Nullsoft (a subsidiary of America On-Line1) and he is also one of the authors to the popular music player WinAMP and a peer-to-peer network application called Gnutella [5]. However Frankel was ordered by AOL to kill the Gnutella project since he didn’t have AOL’s permission to release it and also that the Gnutella project was in conflict with one of AOL’s other projects at that moment. It was now that he (and Nullsoft) came up with the ide