README.md

The Big To-Do List

meow

• known peers at share level vs. server level (where to keep conn open?)
• watch files for changes, on start check if file has changed (mod time)
• haves (bitset). implement per peer per file piece (we need to go deeper)
• peer discovery

later

• key generation

• encrypt / decrypt message w/ secret ... then session keys

• web interface

• uTP (cgo?)

• name ideas: bitlocker, torrsync, bitsafe, bitpound

• see what happens when editing same file in 2 places

protocol rambling

basically each file has a .torrent file as defined here http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html + timestamp when they shake, hash each to figure out any differences if != && our stamp < theirs save their meta (0 haves) && request

rambling v2:

step 1: (ping) !known peer request [file, hash]..., [peer]...

step 2: (with meta) for file, hash: !known files || theirs != ours request(file, -1, -1, -1) for peer: !known peer request [file, hash]..., [peer]...

step 3: (with file meta) mfile = SELECT file for piece: mpiece != piece request(piece)

sample:

(discovery)
Shake         -> <-       Shake
RequestMeta   ->
RequestMeta   ->          (can also RequestMeta)
...
                 <-       PieceMeta
                 <-       PieceMeta
                 ...
Request       ->
Request       ->
...
                 <-       Reply
                 <-       Reply
                 ...
Have/Cancel   ->
Have/Cancel   ->
...

Caveats:

After shake, there doesn't have to particularly be any order on a per file basis, and pieces don't have to come in any order either

RequestMeta is a Request where the parameters for index, begin and length are all set to -1 and will get the full (updated) ".torrent" info for a file

PieceMeta is a Piece in reponse to a RequestMeta where the index and begin are set to -1 and the Piece field will contain the ".torrent" for a given file