-------------- > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:09:59PM +1200, David McNab wrote: >> > BUT, the MSK at SSK@... is *not* spoofable. KSK at blah is spoofable. >> > FreeWeb >> > allow MSK at SSK@... - it looks up the KSK every time to avoid nasty long >> > URLs. Freenet is secure if you use MSK at SSK@ >> >> Again... <groan>... FreeWeb publishes and maintains totally secure sites in >> the standard freenet:MSK at SSK@alphabetsoup/subkey// format! >> Referencing them via insecure hyperlinks is only an option. >> omigod :(
> I think people understand this, or at least, I do. The fear is that > where protocols are concerned, too many options can be a bad thing. The > mere ability to deal with www.xxx.free style domains will encourage > people to use them, but those people will encounter the problems you > mention. I think that with a system like Freenet, where security and > anonymity are such strong selling points, providing an insecure option > to a potentially uninformed user is actually doing them a disservice. _Some_ websites are easily rememberable. The top-level domains, for example. How many people, however, can remember addresses like: www.university.ac/csdept/~someobscurename/enc_res.html ? So how do people visit places like that when they won't remember the URL? They follow a link from another page the first time, then they bookmark. Alphabet soup exists in the web almost as much as Freenet. People manage quite happily. With key indexes (Freenet's equivalent of Yahoo), and sites like Snarfoo (a Freenet portal, you could say), people can use Freenet just like they do the web...without looking, caring or remembering the URI. The .free extension is well-intentioned, but unnecessarily creates what is in effect, a proprietry extension to Freenet, which to my mind is somewhat of an oxymoron. User friendliness is a noble goal, and for attempting to reach it you deserve credit, but as you pointed out yourself, Freeweb already provides a fantastically easy way to create "standard" Freesites. That is the hardest part in using Freenet, not the navigation or linking. -------------- Cruise www.casual-tempest.net www.wytedragon.com opera.redeemedsoft.com _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
