> Let's say that someone decides they want to build a key index of nekkid > eskimos.
You're question doesn't have anything to do with indices. You're question is just rather Freenet node operators are safe an attack where their node is confiscated and then the attacker does a brute force attack on all known keys to find illicit material on the node. (This is unrelated to key indices as there are other ways to find keys.) And the answer is no. Not only that, but it's, as far as I can tell, impossible to defend against this attack. The benefit of Freenet is that it's harder for Them to detect that you're trafficking in illicit content. If they already suspect you and can seize your computer then you're screwed in a lot of ways. Other ways include looking in your browser cache, data recovery techniques on your hard drive which show deleted files, and tempest scanning of your monitor. At least with Freenet, unlike the web, They can't tap your connection or stack you by monitoring a site. If anyone has a theoretical solution to the problem of confiscation and brute force key cracking then I'd love to hear it. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From devl-admin at freenetproject.org Tue Apr 10 09:40:08 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA25276 for <danello at danky.com>; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:40:04 -0400 Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC69A58152; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 06:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: devl at freenetproject.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow029o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.123]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF1358150 for <devl at freenetproject.org>; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 06:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagrat42 ([213.48.100.90]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:16:58 +0000
