ShareBox

Sharebox is a BitTorrent style file sharing application.

About

Features:

• BitTorrent protocol

  • Metainfo :
    • Torrent file generator/updater
    • Torrent file parser
    • Encoder to encode the information into bencoding format
    • Decoder to decode the bencoding format
  • Centralized Discovery/tracker server

• BitTorrent client application

  • Connection establishment & handshakes
  • Connection state
  • Reading/Writing pieces from/into files
  • Sending/Receiving data pieces
  • Handling requests - Sending/Responding to requests
  • Handling choke/unchoke messages
  • Handling n connections simultaneously
  • 'Rarest first' algorithm to prioritize rare peices
  • Use Hashing to check data integrity

• Develop a terminal UI to browse torrents

• Develop a good suite of test cases

Future Features:

• We have identified the following optional features which are good to have in the project in future :

  • Decentralized tracker
  • Explore latest technologies to retreive torrent files such as IPFS
  • Explore if there is a modern way to get peer information.
  • Add more features to UI including download speed, number of live seeders/leechers etc.

Developers:

• Alberto : adelgadocabrera
• Anchit : anchitbhatia