Work in progress

The current limitation of the initial experimental protocol

• Duplication of data (the protocol is only relying on filenames)
• Huge file cannot be synchronized on unstable network
• File and peer cannot be easily trusted (except with the HMAC key but need too much setup for each user/participant)

Requirements for the forban 2.0 protocol

• Files must be composed of chunks and reconciliation must be based on the chunks
• Files must be based on their hashes (à la git)
• Protocol must support the handling of chunks (to allow resume and out-of-order synchronization)
• Trusting peers and file proposed must be integrated within the protocol

Ideas?

• Reusing BitTorent protocols?
• git dataformat?