Tribler - Download Torrents using Tor-inspired onion routing
Tribler is a research project of Delft University of Technology.
Tribler was created over nine years ago as a new open source
Peer-to-Peer file sharing program.
During this time over one million users have installed it
successfully and three generations of Ph.D. students tested their
algorithms in the real world.
Tribler is the first client which continuously improves upon
the aging BitTorrent protocol from 2001 and addresses its flaws.
We expanded it with, amongst others, streaming from magnet links,
keyword search for content, channels and reputation-management. All
these features are implemented in a completely distributed manner, not
relying on any centralized component. Still, Tribler manages to remain
fully backwards compatible with BitTorrent.
Work on Tribler has been supported by multiple Internet research European grants. In total we received 3,538,609 Euro in funding for our open source self-organising systems research.
Roughly 10 to 15 scientists and engineers work on it full-time.
Our ambition is to make darknet technology, security and privacy the
default for all Internet users.
As of 2013 we have received code from 46 contributors and 143.705
lines of code.
Vision & Mission
"Push the boundaries of self-organising systems, robust
reputation systems and craft collaborative systems with millions of
active participants under continuous attack from spammers and other
adversarial entities."
Tribler - Download Torrents using Tor-inspired onion routing
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