Begin4 Title: p4 Version: 0.3.1 Entered-date: 2004-10-19 Description: P4 is a self-organizing, peer-to-peer overlay network, similar to Gnutella and Freenet. However, P4 differs in that it provides an API for developing applications on top of the network. P4 handles the networking and exports functionality for unicast, multicast, user and plugin discovery, and strong encryption and authentication. This frees developers from worrying about networking, and allows them to focus on building real functionality. Keywords: p4, peer, peer to peer, p2p, platform, networking, distributed network, overlay network, self organizing, file sharing, instant messaging, broadcast, multicast, plugin, client, APi Author: ibiblio_p4@ryanb.org (Ryan Barrett) Maintained-by: ibiblio_p4@ryanb.org (Ryan Barrett) Primary-site: http://snarfed.org/space/p4 327K p4-0.3.1.tar.gz 1K p4.lsm Platforms: P4 has been built and tested on Redhat 9, SUSE 8, Debian stable, Mac OS X, and Solaris/SunOS 5.8, and should work on any platform that supports pthreads and Berkeley sockets. Copying-policy: GPL End