I've just started running 0.7 alpha darknet --- were the initial runs of previous versions this heady? --- and I must congratulate Mathew on a job well done.
One thing that has become quickly obvoius is that there is not yet any good method of starting one's connection to the darknet. Go to <http://code.bulix.org/XXXX?raw>, where XXXX is just about any number between 1350 and 1650 (as I'm writing) and you'll see the "secret" node information for almost every node on the darknet --- and they've all been posted to public IRC, too. As toad pointed out, this has two problems: 1) Security -- Most people connecting during this heady time are not being terribly concerned about trusting the nodes they connect to, leaving them open to harvesting by the unscrupulous. 2) Network Topology -- We've been connecting to *everybody*, when the network works best when it grows as a small world system, as designed. One possible soIution is Frost, either an existing 0.5 Frost or on "insecure" references and 0.7 Frost: Announce that you are willing to trade node references via encrypted private messages. In the real darknet, you'd decide you knew and could trust me, you'd send me a private message asking if I knew and trusted you, and then we'd exchange node references via encrypted private mesages. For the nonce, just send me an encryted-to-me message with your node info and I'll reciprocate. Does anyone see a problem with this idea? Are encrypted Frost messages "secure enough" even while the darknet isn't quite dark? ++H
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