Re: how to transfer files on napster

[christophervincent () STMARKSSCHOOL ORG (Vincent; Christopher)]

There is a much more complete publication here->
http://opennap.sourceforge.net/napster.txt

david.weekly.org was not the first to publish the protocol, and said that he
was not the first and or best in a post on slashdot. david has a very good
presentation of it and would be a good reference, but a more complete
version is available above.

-Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: David U. [mailto:davidu () ELECTRICITI COM]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 7:17 PM
To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
Subject: Re: how to transfer files on napster

Blue Boar wrote:

> Jordan Ritter wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Blue Boar wrote:
> >
> > # Depends on whether you were trying to keep people solely from giving
> > # access to other files on accident, or if you were trying to keep
> > # people from trading other types of warez intentionally.
> >
> > I don't think the intention is relevant.  This isn't a "security
concern";
> > there is no risk to guard against.
>
> Agreed.  I just let through the last few posts surrounding "tricking"
> Napster.  If folks want to continue poking at Napster, you should look
> for some real bugs.  I think the protocol was published recently, no?
> That would be a good place to start.
>
>                                                 BB

The protocol was published:

Protocol: http://david.weekly.org/code/napster.php3

Story: somewhere on mp3.com/news

-davidu