✨ Feature Suggestion | P2p Filesharing Client Recommendations #920

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jonah · 2019-05-11T01:24:43Z

ghbjklhv commented

2019-05-11 01:24:43 +00:00

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Feature: Bittorrent/P2p File-sharing Client Recommendations

What I can recommend:
There are very few clients directed at privacy.
To get the ball going maybe add:

XD Client
OFFLoad - Uses OFFSystem (not Bittorrent)
The Owner Free File System - Reboot of OFFSystem (not Bittorrent)

Networks I find worth discussing but don't know enough to endorse:

But why not ___ protocol?
Here is a basic list of popular protocols and issues with them:

IPFS: No known TOR or I2p Support

DAT: Same as IPFS.

**Feature**: Bittorrent/P2p File-sharing Client Recommendations **What I can recommend**: There are very few clients directed at privacy. To get the ball going maybe add: - [XD Client](https://xd-torrent.github.io/) - [OFFLoad](http://offload.sourceforge.net/) - Uses [OFFSystem](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem) (not Bittorrent) - [The Owner Free File System](off.system/) - Reboot of [OFFSystem](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem) (not Bittorrent) **Networks I find worth discussing but don't know enough to endorse**: - [StealthNet](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/StealthNet) - [Calypso](http://calypso.sourceforge.net/) - [iMule](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMule) - [Phex](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phex#Anonymous_Phexhttps://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phex#Anonymous_Phex) - [Frost](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet#Tools_and_applications) **But why not ___ protocol?** Here is a basic list of popular protocols and issues with them: **IPFS**: No known TOR or I2p Support **DAT**: Same as IPFS.

blacklight447 commented

2019-05-13 06:56:12 +00:00

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I warn against using bittorrent based file sharing for privacy purposes, they often leak you ip address by design(not because they are evil, but just because that how they were built to work.)

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gjhklfdsa commented

2019-05-13 16:56:25 +00:00

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@blacklight447-ptio XD uses I2p.

@ghbjklhv I wouldn't add qBittorrent to main, tho.
Too easy for somebody to leak their IP.

I'm unaware of any issues with Frost.

@blacklight447-ptio XD uses I2p. @ghbjklhv I wouldn't add qBittorrent to main, tho. Too easy for somebody to leak their IP. I'm unaware of any issues with [Frost](https://www.openhub.net/p/10865).

nchristensen commented

2019-05-31 23:46:04 +00:00

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BiglyBT (A fork of Vuze) supports I2P with a plugin. I believe the I2P console also provides a Bittorrent client.

[BiglyBT](https://github.com/BiglySoftware/BiglyBT/wiki/I2P) (A fork of [Vuze](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuze)) supports I2P with a plugin. I believe the I2P console also provides a Bittorrent client.

Mikaela commented

2019-06-10 09:10:48 +00:00

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IPFS: No known TOR or I2p Support

https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37

> IPFS: No known TOR or I2p Support https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37

jonah commented

2019-08-15 01:12:41 +00:00

I haven't heard of the software listed here and it isn't clear to me how they're significantly better than what we currently recommend (namely Syncthing): https://www.privacytools.io/software/file-sync/

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