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Re:WDT, a library to transfer files as fast as possible over... by rakoo on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @05:30PM (#9925963)
I'd like to think you can do the same using plain bittorrent, because it will consider every new eth interface as a possibility to open another connection, maximizing the amount of data among all connections.

You also get authenticity for free, although you lose overhead time because you need to hash the full data and send the torrent info first.

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Re:WDT, a library to transfer files as fast as possible over... by ldemailly on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:02PM (#9926186)
bittorrent is optimized for sending to many and across peers. for fastest data transfer the time it takes to read the data is the bottleneck once the network is optimized, so hashing before sending would be more costly (for a 1:1 copy)

we are considering 1:many case for future development but there are tools (like bittorrent) which already excel at this

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