This makes konspire2b markedly different from traditional file sharing software, where users search for files on connected systems. Instead, a konspire2b user is encouraged to simply subscribe to some channels of interest, let the software run for a few hours, and then look at the files they have received.

Any konspire2b user can create new channels. In order to broadcast files in a channel, a user needs to possess its private key. This private key can be shared among several users to allow for collaboratively run channels.

There is currently a single client implementation called kast. It uses a browser-based user interface. In its present implementation, konspire2b suffers from high protocol overhead for the broadcasting of "announcement" messages for files.

All konspire2b-related software is open source under the GNU GPL. The konspire2b website uses a wiki for the purpose of documentation and brainstorming.

konspire2b succeeds the now defunct konspire network, a more traditional file client/server based file sharing application written in Java. Developer Jason Rohrer emphasizes that konspire2b was written in C++ instead.

Other projects by Jason Rohrer:

• token word - a Xanadu-style text editing system
• tangle - a proxy server which tries to find relationships between websites a user visits