CacheP2P – Distributed caching platform • Hacker News Board

Re: CacheP2P – Distributed caching platform

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Post by Paul-ish » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 5:25 PM UTC

Couldn't someone create a large number of sybils in this network to see what pages people are loading? Browser sessions could be inferred from this.

Also, how much latency does this add due to P2P connection set up time?

Re: CacheP2P – Distributed caching platform

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Post by WhoBeI » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 5:26 PM UTC

ComodoHacker wrote: post #14

Sounds cool, but what are the use-cases? What problems is this tech trying to solve?

I have the same issue - can't think of a single one. Most of the ones I could think of are solved better with CDN or other cloud services.

Well, should all DNS servers suddenly die it might be useful but besides that..

But, yeah, still kind of cool.

Re: CacheP2P – Distributed caching platform

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Post by randall » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 5:28 PM UTC

This has made me rethink a lot of things. I think video on the web should probably use the webtorrent approach primarily. Thanks for posting... gonna go work on some interesting approaches now.

Re: CacheP2P – Distributed caching platform

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Post by jdc0589 » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 5:40 PM UTC

This project, and lots of others, would really benefit from a standardized crypto Javascript API in browsers so there is an opportunity for using better hashing algorithms than are realistic to implement in Javascript.

Im not saying its realistic to engineer sha1 collisions to serve up malicious content on a platform like this, but its getting closer every year.

Re: CacheP2P – Distributed caching platform

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Post by deckar01 » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 5:42 PM UTC

WhoBeI wrote: post #22

ComodoHacker wrote: post #14

Sounds cool, but what are the use-cases? What problems is this tech trying to solve?

I have the same issue - can't think of a single one. Most of the ones I could think of are solved better with CDN or other cloud services. Well, should all DNS servers suddenly die it might be useful but besides that.. But, yeah, still kind of cool.

CDNs and cloud services cost money to setup and maintain.

This scales asset availability with popularity, automatically, for free, with minimal setup.

Re: CacheP2P – Distributed caching platform

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Post by jorjordandan » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 5:48 PM UTC

Would it be possible to make a completely serverless webpage? Or a website that has a server to bootstrap, but all assets are 100% distributed?

Re: CacheP2P – Distributed caching platform

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Post by rcthompson » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 5:58 PM UTC

Xeoncross wrote: post #20

So you have to load the page from the server in order to load the javascript so you can load the same page from the client pool? Is this supposed to be more of a bootstrap process? Load the first page from the server and then you can use the URL hash to request additional pages from the connected clients?

I think you load the (hopefully small) HTML page from the server, but then you load images, videos, and other large assets from peers.

Re: CacheP2P – Distributed caching platform

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Post by soundofvictory » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 6:17 PM UTC

makes me think of https://ipfs.io/

Re: CacheP2P – Distributed caching platform

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 6:19 PM UTC

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Re: CacheP2P – Distributed caching platform

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Post by thekonqueror » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 6:33 PM UTC

willmacdonald wrote: post #2

I'm getting this error on your API page: cachep2p.min.js:9 Uncaught Error: Cannot add duplicate torrent 3cd9bdf4916f422aa77cdd1b952c14202e0eafca I'm also getting these on FF: ICE failed, see about:webrtc for more details(unknown) TypeError: asm.js type error: expecting argument type declaration for 'e' of the form 'arg = arg|0' or 'arg = +arg' or 'arg = fround(arg)'

My Chrome 53.0.2785.143 froze within 5 seconds of opening cachep2p.com.