--- Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > No,
Freenet nodes do NOT know the decryption key
> when they serve a
> request. The ONLY time they know the decryption key
> is when they serve a
> LOCAL request. So if you want your node to build an
> index of what you
> personally have browsed, that's feasible, but not
> very useful IMHO.
> 

Opps yeah, sorry right, it's not that easy to sniff
stuff.  But Wait, aren't the public keys available
from SSKs to serving nodes?  Sniffers could at least
try "SSK@<sniffed public key>/index.html".  If sites
wanted to be found, they could make sure to have an
index.

I suppose you could download lots of HTML to try to
build a graph of freesites.  Of coarse you won't have
any idea about what's in the islands.  Once you do get
the keys you could find out how "popular" items seem
to be by collecting stats on how often you see
requests for them.  Of coarse if you did this on only
one node, its specialization would keep you from being
able to reliably measure this.  

All this seems to point away from an "every node for
itself" implementation of a search engine.  I suppose
some group could develope thier search tool, which
downloads their latest pile of data periodically off
freenet.

So how does http://www.freenet.org.nz/search/ work?

Chris

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