> If you are running a transient node, and make a request, the upchain node > knows that you > made the request, because your node does not tunnel requests. Hence we lose > all > plausible deniability.
I don't think there is a solution to this. The majority of transient nodes will probably be users. Well, okay, not totally. I can see dialup users forming networks with other dialup users and then using one of the users as a gateway to the Internet nodes. This would be the sort of situation that would occur in areas where Internet access is rare, much like in the 80s and early 80s in the US. Quite a few people had modems, but you'd know maybe one person with Internet access. So modem-based BBSs would act as Internet gateways. I don't know how much that situation exists in the world today. I could also see this happening with Packet Radio networks. So it's possible that a transient node is a gateway for a bunch of other slow nodes. But probably not because we have a glut of dialup modem users calling ISPs. I think the only solution to this is to make the first node you talk to trusted (there *are* trusted nodes) or else talk to it through a mix net. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
