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by Windrider
2003-11-18 17:16
Forum: Protocol Alley
Topic: Swarm vs. burst?
Replies: 5
Views: 3954

The "burst" way to compensate for data integrity it's something designed to be used on very fast networks (multi GB), because on those networks it takes less time to send the data several times than to check for it's integrity using conventional methods ala CRC. Btw swarming is not what you're reffe...
by Windrider
2003-04-21 15:33
Forum: Protocol Alley
Topic: porting DC++ to Linux?
Replies: 63
Views: 42616

Actually QT is free for Linux development as long as it's gpl, and there's a free versionof QT 2 for windows too as long as you make free software.

Xul apps faster than QT? Surely that's bad coding of QT apps.
by Windrider
2003-04-20 12:44
Forum: Protocol Alley
Topic: porting DC++ to Linux?
Replies: 63
Views: 42616

Well Qt is way different from ATL/MFC although it's one of the best choices for corssplatform programming, but given the fact ATL uses MFC down under and that wxWindows is very similar to MFC, probably that makes wxWindows the best choice over other options (Qt, GTK, FLTK or FOX). Volkris: Xul is si...
by Windrider
2003-01-05 13:03
Forum: Protocol Alley
Topic: Encryption?
Replies: 78
Views: 91951

Mmm you might try using AES (aka Rjaendel) and something like El Gamal for key distribution. AES is fast, has a decent security and I remeber seeing distributions of it less than 100Kb long compressed.