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.
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