On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:26:43AM +0100, Marco A. Calamari wrote: > At 11.13 05/02/02 -0500, you wrote: > > >> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:21:18AM -0500, Gianni Johansson wrote: > >> > I added a ClientDelete command to the node's FCP implementation to > >delete > ... > >> > >> But why would we make it easier for people to censor their own > >> datastores? > >> > >In a well functioning network ClientDelete should be almost useless as a > >censorship tool because of distributed caching of popular data. > > > >It is for people (organizations? ;-) ) like CofE who are inserting from > >transient nodes. > > > >Deleting keys from the local store and re-requesting them allows freesite > >publishers to see whether their content actually made it out into the > >network. > > > >All I am doing is providing a scalpel to substitute for the sledgehammer > >approach that most successful transient inserters are already using -- i.e. > >nuking the data store. > > AFAIK the Freenet architecture, this tool is an useful debugging > and administration tool. > > But AFAIK the security model of Freenet (difficult matter > due to lack of docs) this is just an hole in the "deep security" > model of Freenet as a whole; I cannot say why, because is just another > weapon for an attacker, but I can say that not giving one more weapon > is better. It's less obvious than an insertor running 2 nodes on the same IP, no? > > Justifying this choice for usefulness is possible (but the usefulness is > not big, IMHO), but it is impossible give a proof of impossibility to > use this function in an attack. > > No way to delete information (other that nuking the node), this is a thick > wall against an attack. > > JM2C. Marco > > > * Marco A. Calamari marco at freenetproject.org * > > il Progetto Freenet - segui il coniglio bianco > the Freenet Project - follow the white rabbit >
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