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The Circle

The Circle is a peer-to-peer distributed file storage application built in Python. It is based on Chord, which is a member of the distributed hash table (DHT) algorithms.

Some of the more unusual features:

Problems are: From The Circle homepage: The Circle is a scalable decentralized peer to peer application. Which is quite a mouthful. In English, what this means is that there's no central authority running the show. Which means no entry taxes, no one booting you off the network, and (in theory) no weak point which can break the whole system. As long is there's one Circle peer running, anywhere in the world, there's still a network. Circle does not try to provide anonymity, which allows it to be much more scalable than gnutella.

The Circle currently provides:

The Circle is written mainly in Python, and currently runs on Linux, BSD, Windows, and Mac OS X. Porting it to other operating systems should not be too difficult.

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