On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:07:23PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Matthew Toseland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Eh? People will run a node locally. If they don't run a permanent node > > locally they have no security anyway. So what's the point of SSL? > > This is so *very* short-sighted. At work, for example, my web browser > is on HP-UX 10.20 and my node is on Win95. > > You don't actually expect me to try to run a Freenet node on HP-UX > 10.20 do you? Good lord, I can't even get one stable on OpenBSD. > Now, if freenet were written in a *portable* language instead of a > proprietary one.... ;-) > > But I don't think it's freenet's job to implement any sort of tunnel > for extra security; simply make sure that freenet doesn't actively > prevent people from doing that sort of tunneling (e.g. by doing silly > HTTP redirection tricks). We don't. We don't use any redirection now. We run 8888 for mainport, and 8889 for nodestatus, which sooner or later will get converted into infolets and run on mainport too, and 8891 (by default) for the distribution servlet. > > -- > Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers > http://wooledge.org/~greg/ |
-- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/11/02.
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