On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:42:30AM +0700, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > > I really didn't mean to divert this into all the listed topics, but > anyways. > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:09:42PM -0400, Travis Bemann wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:44:44PM +0700, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > > > 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. > > If it were possible to do right it would be good. It will be hard to > justify asking people to give up there bandwidth for free.
So why do people run Gnutella nodes? > > > - 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. > > That is still not perfect anonymity. It is pretty damn hard to get perfect anonymity. Even onion routing can be subject to traffic analysis. > <> > > > - 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. > > Your still not understanding Freenet, Travis. Nodes cannot just route at > the leisure, it will kill the network if they do. That is how I said you could rate connections by capacity. I never said that it would work in Freenet. -- 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: 1739 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20000817/04815832/attachment.pgp>
