[crossposted to chat] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Freenet Developers Email List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 12:29 AM Subject: [freenet-devl] words of wisdom > I will not drop any more emails into the group, since I'm not a member, and > do not want to be that junk mail you all get. (funny example of the open > philosophy's disadvantages :) ). > > The question is not weather congress or the executive is the correct method, > because the answer is both, and what's important is the situation. > I understand your core philosophies, because you have well published them. > Unfortunately I have not, but it will happen. I have an engineering > perspective to add to this, because the issues are one and the same, if you > really think about it (security & philosophy). To quote you guys, its how do > you deal with the "cancer nodes". With my added centralness, it's the > answer. Around here, we never take centralness as the answer (except as a crutch to be replaced later). In my experiance, a well thought out decentralized design is always superior to a similar centralized design (although poorly-done decentralized designs have enormous difficulty actualy working). That's why I like Freenet. > It's the white blood cells. But to say that my design is more or > less secure is futile, because nothing that is secure is usable. The > fundamental premise of computer security is like an ohms law tradeoff: > usability, security, cost. > > What I am for, is what the NSA is aiming for with SE-Linux (my chosen linux > base code, irony?): to make something so secure, that not even they can > break it. That way, they can use it and feel comfortable. Those that break > it will want the credit of doing so. Since I'm going to have a budget to > deal with, there will be rewards to entice people to enhance MFS. My hopes > are that it will be the DES of file systems. Not the best in any category, > but universal and good enough to get the job done. Generic and specialized > are yin and yang. "Not the best in any category" doesn't begin the describe the problems with DES. I hope you know that around 1993, you could build a custom DES-cracking computer for about $1 million (US) that could break any DES key in a little over three hours. Following Moore's law, computers have gotten 2^4 times faster since then (and that estimate is on a conservitive scale). The result is kludges like 3DES until something more suitable comes along (AES). Your choice of analogy does not bode well for the future. > > You guys will appreciate the UNI ID design, and may want to consider looking > it over. I may make MFS and UNI ID also use PGP, to have 2 fences guarding > the property. That will be the executive and congress together. I am > purposely not reading your engineering material, just as I'm not reading AFS > (but will later). I want it for the record that we are in parallel, and not > hopping over. But UNI ID is NOT MFS, so that argument doesn't apply. UNI ID > was created out of necessity. Its my definition of anonymous identification. > (yes, you semantics freaks, its an oxymoron, and trademark!) > > You may all view the UNI IDs figures because it's a public design. > www.mercuryfs.net/design/uni_id.pdf Note that this week I'm changing all > functions over to use the figure 96 method > (www.mercuryfs.net/design/fig_96.pdf ), to just begin later on in that > flowcharts process. Thus sending the UNI ID password (aka PIN number) via > IPsec. > > My last note is, a suggestion: should you read and understand the UNI ID > design, and how it's a public/private key distribution system, and that MFS > (specifically the S0 network) does not use it in any special way, then I'd > like to propose that you all see if UNI ID may suit freenet. No centralized design will ever suit Freenet. > Because by > design, both technically, legally, and philosophically, it's a and neutral > separate entity. I intend to end up in Switzerland, since I can have an > excuse to use the (rented, timeshared, low cost, blah blah) corporate jet, > and go snowboarding. Not a partnership, but just the first user of it. In > fact, if Ian is interested, we can get him to funding it? (ha!) > > Oh yeah, the patent will be at www.mercuryfs.net/patent.zip, in about 20 > minutes. It's a better read than my documentation, to be honest. I consider > it the best summary of MFS so far. What an example of the value of > attorneys, the Marine corp. of the business world. Attorneys, the barnacle of the business world. _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
