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johnboy

11-30-2002, 03:56 AM

For all of you that dont know yet, there are 2 open source fasttrack clients that are being built.
The first one to be announced was Epidemic, created by a group called RapidRoad. Their beta I think will be due in January and their site is http://fileblitz.net/rapidroad/home.php
The next one, and quite recent one is called Project Fasttrack.
Their site is http://www.projectfasttrack.com.
In my opinion, Project Fasttrack is under faster development, but Epidemic has more features and therefore nicer.

zapjb

11-30-2002, 07:30 AM

Um from what I read projecfasttrack will NOT be open source. Just their skins. Peace. ;)

johnboy

11-30-2002, 09:04 PM

hmmm...i heard that project fasttrack was going to be opensource, but i might be wrong.
I know that Epidmic will be opensource though.
Later

Ardor

11-30-2002, 10:03 PM

you heard right (http://www.projectfasttrack.com/), But the validity of their claim is not yet proven!

random nut

12-01-2002, 02:13 AM

Originally posted by Ardor@Dec 1 2002, 12:03 AM
But the validity of their claim is not yet proven!
If you mean that they have reverse engineered the FastTrack protocol, then I believe they have. I've successfullly decrypted and uncompressed Kazaa and removed their loader and have just used IDA Pro (a powerful disassembler), and they do make it easy for anyone to find their FastTrack protocol code. There are a couple of functions (perhaps 50-100) where they use simple (for IDA Pro) tricks to fool disassemblers and I bet those functions are actually the most interesting parts of Kazaa, i.e., the FastTrack protocol code. Now I gotta get some sleep..