'Die Hard', and 'Bit Tyrant'

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Die Hard

DieHard eliminates -- or greatly reduces the likelihood of -- a class of bugs and security vulnerabilities called memory errors. DieHard prevents certain kinds of errors from happening at all. It also reduces the probability that a bug will have any effect at all. DieHard works by randomly locating program objects far apart from each other in memory. This scattering of memory objects all over memory not only makes some errors unlikely to happen, it also makes it virtually impossible for a hacker to know where vulnerable parts of the program's data are. This thwarts a wide class of exploits.

http://www.diehard-software.org/

Bit Tyrant

BitTorrent client that is optimized for fast download performance. During evaluation testing on more than 100 real BitTorrent swarms, BitTyrant provided an average 70% download performance increase when compared to the existing Azureus 2.5 implementation, with some downloads finishing more than three times as quickly.

http://bittyrant.cs.washington.edu/

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