On Thursday, Apr 27, 2000, "Scott G. Miller" writes:
>
>> As I see it, the following are ripe for implementation now and all that
>> is needed is for someone to take responsibility for them:
>> 
>> Inter-node encryption
>
>I can take this one in the manner Oskar suggested.  I've already completed
>a key exchange and socket crypto layer.  Its just a matter of hooking it
>up to freenet at the connection layer.  What cipher do we want to
>use.  My vote is for Blowfish or Twofish (probably the former since its
>more aged :)

Ideally you want a way for nodes to be able to negotiate this somehow, to 
allow for future expansion and backwards compatibility.  future backwards
comatibility. uh-huh. I must be tired or something.

> > > Local data encrpytion using the plaintext keys 
>Ditto.  This is a client issue, probably a 20 minute job if we decide on a
>cipher.

Don't decide, let it be specified.


  -pj

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