The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is konspire2b.

konspire2b is a peer-to-peer network designed and implemented by Jason Rohrer. Clients/nodes can subscribe to channels and receive all incoming files from the channels they are subscribed to. Broadcasters can create channels and broadcast files to all the subscribers.

This makes konspire2b markedly different from traditional file sharing software, where users search for files on connected systems. Instead, a konspire2b user is encouraged to simply subscribe to some channels of interest, let the software run for a few hours, and then look at the files they have received.

Technical aspects

Any konspire2b user can create new channels. In order to broadcast files in a channel, a user needs to possess its private key. This private key can be shared among several users to allow for collaboratively run channels.

There is currently a single client implementation called kast. It uses a browser-based user interface. In its present implementation, konspire2b suffers from high protocol overhead for the broadcasting of "announcement" messages for files.

All konspire2b-related software is open source under the GNU GPL. The konspire2b website uses a wiki for the purpose of documentation and brainstorming.

History

konspire2b succeeds the now defunct konspire network, a more traditional file client/server based file sharing application written in Java. Developer Jason Rohrer emphasizes that konspire2b was written in C++ instead.

From 2003 onwards, the computer used to run katcher which informs Kast nodes of each others' existence, has not responded to queries. Any computer can perform this task, preferably one with a static IP address, and there are some possibilities listed below.

There has been a continuing spamming campaign on the Konspire wiki (http://konspire.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?main_page), as a result, some information has been copied to this page where it can be kept in better condition.

Current systems running a katcher:

• nepp.dyndns.org : 6085
• kast.homedns.org : 6085

Another possibility of connecting to the network is adding nepp.dyndns.org:7085 via the webinterface's Add Host option.

External links

• konspire2b homepage (http://konspire.sourceforge.net/)
• infoAnarchy wiki entry for konspire (http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Konspire)