WASTE

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Nullsoft Waste. An crypthographical tool to share files and chat with your
friends.

WASTE is a software product and protocol that enables secure distributed
communication for small (on the order of 10-50 nodes) trusted groups of
users.

WASTE is designed to enable small companies and small teams within larger
companies to easily communicate and collaborate in a secure and efficient
fashion, independent of physical network topology.

Some bits of information about WASTE:
WASTE is currently available for 32-bit Windows operating systems, and as a
limited functionality server for FreeBSD and MacOS X. Porting to other
operating systems should be a breeze, as the source is provided (and the
network code itself is pretty portable).
WASTE is licensed under the GPL.
WASTE currently provides the following services:
Instant Messaging (with presence)
Group Chat
File browsing/searching
File transfer (upload and download)
Network architecture: WASTE uses a distributed architecture that allows for
nodes to connect in a partial mesh type network. Nodes on the network can
broadcast and route traffic. Nodes that are not publicly accessible or on
slow links can choose not to route traffic. This network is built such that
all services utilize the network, so firewall issues become moot. more
information.
Security: WASTE uses link-level encryption to secure links, and public keys
for authentication. RSA is used for session key exchange and authentication,
and the links are encrypted using Blowfish in PCBC mode. The automatic key
distribution security model is very primitive at the moment, and may not
lend itself well to some social situations. more information.


http://grazzy.mjoelkbar.net/waste/
 
See <http://www.nullsoft.com/free/waste/download.html> for
Nullsoft's claim that no one has a license to run WASTE. When it
was first slashdotted,
<http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/29/0140241.shtml>, it was
claimed that WASTE was released under the GPL, though.
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Further on this, there's a sourceforge WASTE project,
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/waste/>.

And there's a discussion in the forums about whether or not WASTE was
really released under the GPL. Stallman's take is that if Frankel was
not authorized to release this Nullsoft IP under the GPL, it was not
realy released under the GPL, and code should be written from scratch
without making use of Nullsoft IP.
 
A little additional information from GRC:

Justin Frankl (author of WinAmp, leading programmer of Nullsoft) decided
to publish it on his own. AOL/Time Warner didn't appreciate that, hence
the "Nullsoft did not authorize blah blah blah" I don't know *why*
Justin ever sold his soul to those bastards, but this is the second time
he published something that AOL didn't like (the first time being
Gnutella). He's a repressed genius, I tell ya... albeit a rebellious one.

Just out of curiosity Q, what was your point? Are you saying that no one
should down load the application? Or are you saying that we should all heed
the decree posted by Nullsoft?
"If you downloaded or otherwise obtained a copy of the Software, you
acquired no lawful rights to the Software and must destroy any and all
copies of the Software, including by deleting it from your computer."
 
Just out of curiosity Q, what was your point? Are you saying that
no one should down load the application? Or are you saying that we
should all heed the decree posted by Nullsoft?
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I was just providing information, not making a point. Interesting that
you might think I was making points like the ones you bring up, though.
 
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