Alessandro Polverini <alex at ...> writes: > > Just a message to let you know of this (impossible?) but definetely > interesting if half of the things that they say it's true. > > http://netsukuku.freaknet.org/index.php?act=3 > ==snip==
Heh, you saw the story on this in the k5 edit queue right? The cyberpunk docs aren't very clear on the basic concept, reading the FAQ is more informative. It's an interesting approach in that it's sort of a transport layer network, i.e. it does *not* route over the Internet, it's supposed to be used on private networks and routes / discovers / resolves at an IP level within those. It basically does this by inserting into Linux as an LKM and taking over the routing table :) Because of this approach, the many security issues it appears to have to me matter considerably less because you sort of have a de facto darknet. The example the FAQ gives is building a WiFi mesh network (with a constant ESSID, hmm :) However its really trying to solve a different and simpler problem than freenet aims to, since a closed network not connected to the Internet is inherrently pretty secure anyway and also a lot less useful for information distribution and censorship resistance ... If you were sufficiently insane, I think you could run a Freenet 0.7 darknet on top of it successfully :D Bob
