Good idea, but I don't think I'll be able to implement it anytime soon unless the libraries are already available (and I remember someone had written a think-cash puzzle in java in the days of 0.3).
For now the way people do it is have a SSK for the main board, and a second SSK for a board that handles applications for the main board and is given out. If the application SSK gets spammed, the owner of the main board can publish a new SSK on his secured board and encrypt it for those applicants that are not suspected of the spamming. All of this has gui support and its not hard to figure out. All other newbie questions can safely be redirected to /dev/rtfm which is a link to jtcfrost.sf.net/manual.zip ;-) Quoting Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org>: > Had a long discussion on searching with a newbie, Animo. > A semi-automatic introduction protocol for Web-of-Trust Frost or other > searching systems (this is all based on existing ideas): > > Somebody who wants to do introductions for newbies who want to upload, > who is in the Web of Trust, sets up a page (or something), with a list > of pages containing: > > One think-cash puzzle (obscured letters, for example, something that a > computer can't do but a human can), to provide half the key > One hash-cash puzzle - a key to crack, for example, using some > standard software, something that will take a few hours on commodity > hardware, provides the other half key. (the difficulty should be > configurable - a few tens of minutes should deter casual spammers). > > Once you have the full key, insert a message including your identity at > that KSK location. If the introducer is particularly picky, he may ask > you to include the key of some nice new content. It comes in via his > frost-mail, and he checks the message and possibly the content, and > clicks the Introduce button to accept the newbie and post a reference > to his board. > > This would provide a formal system for introductions, which it should be > possible to build into the UI. > _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
