Thread: Netmess, anonymous p2p file sharing no ip address or name
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Old June 9th, 2002
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I wonder, how does one connect to another node over TCP/IP, if TCP/IP needs an IP but you don't send one?

Looking through their source code, it definitely sends and receives IP addresses:

Code:
   String fsip=srcdata.GetDataValue("nodeip");
   String nodemanager=srcdata.GetDataValue("nodemanager");
and

Code:
  new URL("http://"+fsip+":"+fsport+"/"+objid);
So even if it is encrypted, you need a way to unencrypt it. So how can you unencrypt if you don't know how it was encrypted? You use a uniform, publicly known encryption. So there you go - it defeats the purpose because anyone can still unencrypt it and know the IP address.
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