At 09.08 04/10/02 +0200, you 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? > >I was unable to well explain my point. > >Or maybe you was unable to understand it because, as most of > freenetters, you are unfamiliar with a freenet *user* point of view > >Not all people that *need* Freenet use an unix computer hooked > to xDSL. > >Not all people that need freenet have a computer at all; maybe > they are on trip without portable or live in China. > >So they go in an Internet Cafe' take a seat, disable the > browser cache and point https://bespin.homelinux.net:443 > >This is (er... was) a Freenet node that has an open fproxy and tunnel > port 8888 thru an ssl tunnel on port 443. Now is an unprotected > one on 8888; I'll explain why in a minute. > >They can browse of publish on freenet without disclosing > content or keys to any sniffer; OK, to have a local node is better > for privacy, but a public fproxy gateway to freenet > is *far, far* better that nothing. > >Due to complex way the new fproxy rewrite the url, tunneling > stop working one month ago; I tried every week a new build, > but the 404 still had this problem. > >I'll be able to test 509 next week; I found an internet cafe open and be able to do a quick test; stunnel on 510 seems to be working > i just suggest that, before > the release of 0.5, this problem will be addressed, and optionally a warning > message like that about Internet Explorer is added when people > browse freenet using http AND are not on 127.0.0.1. I still strongly suggest to implement the above message before 0.5 Have a good day. Marco -- + il Progetto Freenet - segui il coniglio bianco + * the Freenet Project - follow the white rabbit * * Marco A. Calamari [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.marcoc.it * * PGP RSA: ED84 3839 6C4D 3FFE 389F 209E 3128 5698 * + DSS/DH: 8F3E 5BAE 906F B416 9242 1C10 8661 24A9 BFCE 822B + _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
