03-09-2005, 04:29 PM
Thats because they are Private networks using form of PKI encryption if i do belive.. Basically like you takl about.. Around your universaty you can setup so all of you running the client there can share with each other and such.. 1 the universaty can't tell what you are transferring as everything is encrypted.. and it has a level on anonymousy.. (Hence why AOL didn't care too much when Justin Frankel made it) good thing he released it open source.. http://waste.sf.net ;o)