On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 08:25:18PM +0000, Adrian Lopez wrote: > It seems like various people here would rather do away with KSKs. I'd > like these people to address how data submission might be dealt with in > lieu of public keyspace. How would in-freenet key indices work without > KSKs? How would things like EOF be implemented if users aren't able to > submit data under public keys bearing a particular prefix?
(I'm assuming I have the permission of the Freenet Government to discuss this subject. If not, please say so and I'll have myself executed immediately.) The problem with KSKs is not that they're publicly writable, but that they appear to provide a one-to-one mapping from a string to a document. In fact they don't, because they can be changed by anyone to point to any document. The fact that the string is readable just makes the problem worse, because it will encourage users to create KSK redirects for everything.
