On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:44:44PM +0700, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:53:09AM -0500, david at aminal.com wrote: > > > > My preference would be to create an identifier that is suited to > > the needs of Freenet, and just use the Internet to get from hither > > to yon, without relying on it to tell us anything about who or what > > is *at* hither or yon. > > That is my personal preference too, but many things are my personal > preference that just can't happen. There are a lot things I keep hearing > we must do: > > - we must have some form micro payment system
NO, NO, NO! We have to keep capitalism from corrupting Freenet as much as possible. > - we must get perfect anonymity Therefore, we must be quite paranoid when designing Freenet (which very well may require out of band communication). We should use PK encryption for connections, out of band initial key exchange, automatically obfuscating file lengths, encrypted datastores on machines with encrypted swap partitions, etc. > - we must have a moderation systems for search results / namespace If someone wants this, it should be done out of band. > - we must have links rated by capacity This is something that can be programmed into nodes without affecting the protocol itself. Just have nodes record the average connection speed with other nodes. -- Travis Bemann Sendmail is still screwed up on my box. My email address is really bemann at execpc.com. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 1520 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20000817/d34e5b64/attachment.pgp>
