TRAIN_00450.eml

NoneNone> "Files can be cached on multiple systems randomly scattered around the
> Internet, as with Napster or Freenet. In fact, the caching in XDegrees is
> more sophisticated than it is on those systems: users with high bandwidth
> connections can download portions, or "stripes," of a file from several
> cached locations simultaneously. The XDegrees software then reassembles
> these stripes into the whole file and uses digital signatures to verify that
> the downloaded file is the same as the original. A key component of this
> digital signature is a digest of the file, which is stored as an HTTP header
> for the file."

This "more sophisticated than [Napster or Freenet]" part seems
to be the same behavior implemented in many other P2P CDNs, 
such as:

  - Kazaa
  - EDonkey/Overnet
  - BitTorrent
  - Gnutella (with HUGE extensions)
  - OnionNetworks WebRAID

...though the quality of the "digest" used by each system varies
wildly.

- Gordon