Hi, See if this is in the right direction:
An important part of the internet is email as you know. How can email take advantage of freenet? I think the in-freenet key index machanism is a great start. (This occurs to me because we cannot send email to friends in China - if the message contains words like "freenet".) Suppose I run a node for in-freenet key index, and I setup user1 at myindex user2 at myindex etc. This is almost like email. Everyone can insert files or keys to user1 at myindex. User1 can ckeck user1 at myindex regularly. The problem now is that everyone can access the information. Can we go a step futher: Suppose we have a freenet engine that allows everyone to register addresses like "user1 at myindex". But we have to make a new machanism so that it requires a private key to decode the information from user1 at myindex and only the person registered it has the private key. Of course we can ask everyone to use PGP to identify themselves, but that is too complicated to be practical. The next step is to make it more user friendly, such as a "freenet-pop3 proxy". Regards, Yuan _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
