> > No, there is no real web of trust here. Or a loose one at most. Nodes > > learn about new nodes by reading the DataSource: field in data carrying > > messages, and then connect to it. There is no way of verifying that the > > address in the DataSource is the "correct" in any sense of the word - it > > could very well be pointing at a malicious node. > Nodes also know about nodes because I put them in the nodes.config > myself. I'd like the option of only talking to such nodes and ignoring > nodes from the DataSource. Then I would be talking to only trusted nodes.
Er, but if everybody did that Freenet wouldn't work. A fundamental part of Freenet's adaptive mechanism is the "path compression" which comes from nodes using the DataSource field. Removing this functionality from your node would probably mean that the presence of your node is doing more harm than good in the Freenet network. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20000818/d9747b71/attachment.pgp>
