Share Files and Chat with Friends, Safe and Secure
Written by Ernesto on May 14, 2007Alliance is a P2P application that allows you to share files and communicate with friends, family and colleagues, safe and secure. It is open source and works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The filesharing functionality is based on BitTorrent, and all chats and transfers are encrypted.
Alliance’s user interface is very intuitive and easy to use. You can search for files in your private network and browse through your friends files to see whatever they have to offer.
Like BitTorrent, the application supports multi-source which means that the transfer speed will increase when more people share the same file.
Another great feature is that you link directly to files in your Alliance network when you are chatting with friends, which makes sharing files even more easy. For all files on the network you will see a download speed indication, the more people share the file, the faster it will be of course.
The latest version of Alliance (0.9.8) is designed to share files securely and uses a very simplistic encryption algorithm, but there is experimental support for more advanced algorithms.
Personally I think that the application has much potential. It could become very popular on University campuses for example ;)
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When I click on Download it only offers an exe. If it works on Linux and OSX it should offer something appropriate for those platforms.
And it’s written in java. All the Azureus haters will have something new to bitch about.
It looks to have alot of potential. Nice Read.
Johnston
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=166584
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Ah, SoulSeek meets Azureus. Nice.
Although the use of the program of course depends on the user base. Let’s see how that develops.
I myself for instance like Azureus very much, but another application in Java running at the same time would probably slow things down below actual usability.
A well written Java application doesn’t slow things more than the typical c++ or vb application.
[quote comment="100734"]A well written Java application doesn’t slow things more than the typical c++ or vb application.[/quote]
That is simply not true. Several things are making it slower than typical C++ programs:
- Yo have to be running the VM
- Large and heavy memory use
- Garbage collection in Java is not optimal.
These are points that are valid regardless of how good you can write code.
Maybe my experience is skewed, but the Java applications I see (with the clear exceptions of Azureus) are slow, memory-hungry and have a bad interface.
Just this Work on LAN?
You guys don’t get it. Its not the data, its the IP.
You start trading mp3s. The RIAA gets a guy on your ‘private’ net. asks for movies and his software records all the IPs of these encrypted transfers. His bosses send nasty letters to your ISP. You get kicked off the internet. The end.
CRYPTO MEANS NOTHING. You need to hide your IP.
Your bolded story lead doesn’t show up in your RSS feed, so the only link there is in the RSS feed is for the download of the exe.Next time, if you don’t repeat the main page link in the story body, could you link to a general selection page instead of directly linking to a download?
When I saw that the link in the rss feed went to an index.shtml file, and that there weren’t any other links (other than the one to your article, all of which I assumed was contained in what I was reading) I assumed it was an info page, not an application download, and I know that one thing I hate more than many others is websites that link to off-site software downloads directly, as opposed to linking to general project pages, unless very explicitly noted (ie: following the link with “(direct download)” or “(.exe direct download)”).
It’s not a big deal, but I know that I’d appreciate it if you did something along those lines, and I know that I’m not the only one. Thanks.
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