MUTE File Sharing is a new peer-to-peer network that provides easy search-and-download functionality while also protecting your privacy. What's New: Version 0.3: Added a new, more deterministic utility counter algorithm that improves the scalability of searches. Added forward flooding and drop tails to ensure the anonymity of both search senders and search responders. These anonymity guards are necessary with more deterministic utility counters, though they were not needed with the version 0.2.2 counters. Added a "time remaining" estimate for each in-progress download. Patch submitted by Marius Sturm. Added (somewhat modified) patch by Mycroftxxx that computes and displays useful statistics about uploads. Added a status display to the Connections panel that gives information about the current connection attempt. Added an improved dynamic download timeout scheme that allows timeouts to be scaled down as transfer speeds improve. Changed file chunk size from 22 KiB to 16 KiB. With a new chunk size that is a power of 2, MUTE chunks are compatible with several partial-content hashing schemes (TigerTrees in particular). Added more robust retries before download failure. This update was inspired by patches submitted by Mycroftxxx and Karl Wagner. Fixed several minor low-level networking issues, including a Unix port rebind issue (after restarting MUTE on the same port), win32 timeouts when accepting connections, and closing bound sockets on all platforms. Added route quality gauges in UI for each download. Changed so that node does not give up listening for new connections after accepting a connection fails (networking issue on Linux). Added documentation for each file in the settings folder. Added a search activity gauge and a search stop button to make the search mechanism more clear in the user interface. Removed console messages about socket read timeouts. Added a maximum connection count setting that works in conjunction to the target connection count setting to rese |  |
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