On 18/12/14 20:33, xor wrote:
> Sorry, forgot to sign the mail.
> Resending...
>
> (Steve, I've told you all of the below on IRC already some weeks ago, you
> don't have to read it if you like to - posting it here again for the others.)
>
> On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 09:39:39 PM Steve Dougherty wrote:
>> If we want to change the default despite these concerns I'm up for it. I
>> guess it's one fewer thing to be confused by.
The default has always been to start on startup or on login. It's only
changed recently because whoever wrote the latest wininstaller rewrite
changed it. See my other mail on the topic.
> The primary concern *for* doing this is that Freenet *needs* high uptime:
> - to prevent correlation attacks ("During the 5 minutes it usually takes to
> insert Freesite X, Node Y is always online. During the remaining hours of the
> day, it is always offline"). Those are very easy attacks! You don't have to
> write special code to walk the network in a complex way, you only need a high
> performance node which connects to very many peers and logs their node
> identity.
> - to improve performance as announcement is slow. This is a huge usability
> issue as it can take half an hour to connect after startup!
> - to provide the stored data to the network. We're a storage network, and
> data
> falling out is always a problem. Its better if we have many high uptime nodes.
- Because big (bulk) downloads and especially uploads are slow, so we
want to allow them to complete over a period.
- For darknet. Darknet with low uptime is likely to be completely
unusable - even with FOAF connections.
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