A day or two ago, some people on IIP were talking about whether freenet supports censorship by promoting "censored" [aka edited] index sites (yeah, I know, I know) Anyway, we were talking for a while, and it seems there's a way around the "how do I promote something that index sites would censor?", and its implementation sounds very similar to the issue of "how do I publish a really big list of seednodes.ref to help people get integrated into the network faster?"
Let me describe how this solution could work for the latter, which will probably negate the issue of GWebCache- Lets say once a day, each nodes inserts a file under an SSK (based on their node's pub/priv key - maybe even under the ARK keyspace?). That file, call it knownNodes.ref for simplicity, contains any node references that the node has seen. Every day, Fred (or a plain stand alone app) can go out and say "ok, what are the nodes I know of? for each of those, retrieve THEIR knownNodes.ref and concatenate that [uniquely] to mine". Fred (or a stand alone app) can skip ones it doesn't want to promote randomly (so as to make it harder to determine "where" in the network they are). After a few days of this, Hawk could just export that file onto a URL that new installs can seed off. That way, the seednodes people start off with is fairly representative of the size of freenet, rather than just the main hubs. It doesn't contain ALL references, as nodes have no obligation to insert all of their known nodes or even to insert any into knownNodes.ref. It also provides security from being able to deduce the "closeness" of nodes. Does that make sense? I'd much rather have the solution self contained within freenet than require another networking system to provide safe distribution. -jrandom !+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+ CryptoMail provides free end-to-end message encryption. http://www.cryptomail.org/ Ensure your right to privacy. Traditional email messages are not secure. They are sent as clear-text and thus are readable by anyone with the motivation to acquire a copy. !+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+ _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
