Most users want the logical AND of their search terms, but Kademlia specifies a logical OR. Also, if it were implemented exactly as described, clients would be responsible for filtering results coming in from the DHT.

Obviously Mainline DHT traffic would increase substantially, but it would still be quite small compared to torrent traffic. If it were implemented, index sites would no longer be required. Mainline DHT has omitted that functionality. Since every filename in the list has its hash attached, the chosen file can then be obtained in the normal way. A search involves choosing one of the keywords, contacting the node with an ID closest to that keyword hash, and retrieving the list of filenames that contain the keyword. Each of these keywords is hashed and stored in the network, together with the corresponding filename and file hash.

The filename is divided into its constituent words. Even their pathetic originators give up extremely quickly.įilename searches are implemented using keywords. Nobody ever selects the torrents with zero seeds unless they're looking for something so niche that there's no other option, and no one seeds bogus torrents. The first 10 to 15 hits might be useful, with various bitrate encodings and various subtitles and audio tracks in them, and then it very very quickly tails off into utter trash. If you go search for any blockbuster movie you care to name on Pirate Bay, you'll get 50 pages worth of hits. In the centralized index situation, no human validates torrents uploaded to the centralized indices. No authority is needed, because there isn't one already. Technically speaking, It's not impossible The problem is that it's spammable/DoSable and will need an authority to either allow/deny nodes from inserting to index or someone like our good old friend 'hosts guy' to maintain a list of known good source nodes that people can download and only share the indexes from those.

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