> I was actually going to bring up the subject of streaming data at some > point, it would be cool to permit radio stations to broadcast over > Freenet in an anonymous manner. It shouldn't require fantastic > modifications, but may not benefit from all of the security afforded to > static content.
I'm quite interested in doing streaming over Freenet. It can utilize the benefit of being streamed through a number of unknown proxy servers even though the other benefits of Freenet will be lost. If we're really clever we can come up with a way to do the nice Freenet load balancing with live data. It's tricky, though, since live streaming requires it to come from a single source. One thing to do would be to stream it out to multiple sources before entering Freenet and then have multiple entry points. Also, we can come up with an almost-live system in which various nodes buffer a portion of the transmission and therefore become new sources. And of course multicasting will help. I'm just talking about live streaming, though, like telephone calls. For streaming MP3s and the like, it won't require nearly so much cleverness. All we really need is messages that don't require a datalength and maybe UDP support because I hear that's good for streaming. Then of course there's a whole new realm of attacks and defenses to be considered with streaming, but we'll get to those after we have at least a working proposal for how to do it. I put streaming in the "way off" category of my todo list, after we're pretty much done with static content. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
