Matthew Toseland wrote:
What 3 link limit? My darknet node currently has 14 connected nodes...
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:24:37PM +0100, Volodya wrote:
Is it possible to ask for any explanation for the 3 link limit that you
have imposed upon 0,7? I really do not understand how i am suppose to
switch to that network now, my original plan was to contact all my friends
who i trust and tell them that if they ever wanted to achieve anonymity, my
node is open to them, then i'd connect to them and we'd start our little
network, slowly the network would continue to grow, as they would invite
their friends, etc, and everybody would be happy.
This is exactly what you should do.
With the limit i can only contact people who already know at least 2 other
people willing to try freenet out, or i have to ask my friends to
compromise their anonymity to each other (many of my friends don't know
each other), or i will have to run 3 nodes on my computer to start with (my
current plan) which will allow for us to go around the limit, until such
time when people will start finding other links themselves.
Oh I see. You mean the "you must connect to at least 3 peers" thing?
Lets explain this once and for all:
- You can connect to one node only. You will not have any anonymity
against that node should it be malicious as all your requests go
through it, and you are not routing any requests for other nodes.
Also your node will not be of any value to the network in terms of
routing. However, if you *really* trust your one peer, you can do
this, and you will be safe against external attackers.
- You can connect to two nodes. You will have very limited anonymity, as
requests can either have come from you or from the other node (or
nodes behind it). Your node will still not be able to do any routing,
but it may function as a useful relay.
- You can connect to three nodes. You will have more anonymity, since
your requests can have come from you or your other 2 neighbours. Your
node will actually route requests for the network.
So:
- The fewer connections you have, the more you must trust your peers.
- The more connections you have, the more likely one of them is a
traitor.
- The more connections you have (within reason), the more routing your
node can do, the more useful it is to the network and the better
performance it will get. (In terms of routing, and in terms of
multi-source downloads).
- If you have less than 3 peers, your node isn't routing at all. That
isn't necessarily a seriously bad thing, but it would be better to
have at least 3 peers.
Thanks a lot, that was a very useful explanation... q;-) So basically what i'll do is make
sure that i first connect to people that i *really* trust, that will ensure that even
after the connection to the first one but before i find the second one i won't be
paranoid. After that i might start going around looking for people to connect to that i
trust reasonably, but not as much.
- Volodya
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