On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Anonymous wrote: > One leverage point for possibly encouraging this to happen is in P2P, > methinks. A few power-users have been prosecuted recently, so imagine > a nice little crypto-tunnel (and mp3 disc-encryptor) app that could > easily be injected into the Kazaa or other Gnutella-centric browsers.
There's no point in trying to fix braindamaged designs by incremental patchwork. You know about <http://zgp.org/pipermail/p2p-hackers/>, right? > The nice thing here is that if we could get a functioning app, the app > itself could be shared and spread variola-like via the P2P networks > themselves. If the users didn't consent to auto-upgrade, you could as well write a worm with p2p node functionality. God knows some people in China could have used some plausible deniability. > There's the technical difficulty that someone pointed out here that > the IP address of both serv-ants is visible. One possible go-around is Well, duh. > to have an encrypted tunnel materialize through blacknet, but I > strongly doubt this will scale to millions of users very well. Instead of doubting, try creating a model that might work, and test drive it in the simulator with millions of nodes. > Another possibility includes allowing the user to make only a portion > of their content visible to any single user (plus crypto of course), > the logic being that 'they' won't come after the millions of regular > file sharers. The point is to not make content linkable to a specific node. > Any thoughts? If we could develop such an app and roll it over into > the file-sharing networks, then the amount of encrypted files being > moved around could increase tremendously. ANd then, us law-abiding, Instead of inventing a polygonal wheel, try joining any of the many efforts like MNet and Freenet, and start hacking. > flag-saluting supporters of even this governments' insistence on world > destabilisation will feel safer in using crypto on a daily basis, > because crypto will no longer be the sole provence of cranks, kooks, > and libertarians.