Shmoocon Rainbow Table Swapshop

[d.auclair at utoronto.ca (David Auclair)]

This sounds like the perfect application for BitTorrent.

Without getting into too many details, a group I know wanted to distribute a 5GB dataset to ~100 computers.  They 
distributed it via BitTorrent, and they maxed out the bandwidth of their network.  (all ports on the switches were 
saturated bidirectionally)

-Dave

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Robin Wood
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:22 PM
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> Subject: [Pauldotcom] Shmoocon Rainbow Table Swapshop
>
> So, Shmoocon is over and the swapshop happened. Unfortunately it
> wasn't as successful as it could have been but for the first attempt I
> think it went OK.
>
> A number of people donated tables and others leached sets, the problem
> turned out to be that the initial donation was about 300GB and to copy
> that from one external disk to a second was taking up to 7 hours, when
> two people were copying that time shot up even more.
>
> When I get back home to the UK I'll do an inventory of what I
> collected and find some way to share it out to those who want copies.
> I'll also have a play with different methods of running the system to
> try to drop that time down to something more manageable.
>
> Thanks to Darren and Larry for donating hardware and the PaulDotCom
> crew in general for keeping an eye on the setup while I was running
> round doing other con activities.
>
> Robin
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