On Thursday 04 September 2008 09:21, Julien Cornuwel wrote: > Matthew Toseland a ?crit : > > >> There is a French user (sich) that is working on an insert-on-demand > >> tool that can achieve that. It works on top of the WoTplugin. For now, > >> it is a standalone app, but we agreed on rewriting it as a Freenet > >> plugin as soon as it is proven to work. > > > > I'm not of the school that says that insert on demand is essential. But it's > > certainly a useful feature. He will have to be careful to not compromise the > > user's security unless the user *wants* his/her security to be compromised. > > In particular, it's very tempting to start to download it as soon as the user > > starts to upload it, but there are some serious security issues with this > > which is why Freenet doesn't make it especially easy. > > Right. We should net the inserter decide if he wants to give the key at > the beginning of the insert or at the end.
We do, there is an EarlyEncode option in FCP. > Anyway, he should tell that > the insert is in progress so requesters would know that it is worth waiting. And this notification would be trusted to the degree that the identity is trusted. > > >> Such a tool could address that problem : users who type something in the > >> appropriate searchbox will actually get a list of what is available. Of > >> course, files would have to be inserted and we need to warn them that > >> the download can take a long time... > > > > Even if it's not insert on demand, downloads can and will take a long time. Is > > reliability higher with insert on demand or without it? > > Well if the WoT does his job correctly, we could filter results to only > display files that belong to identities that are actually here. Defined as "posted recently and trust over X", presumably? > > >>> a) Make everything important part of fproxy. In particular, FMS, Thaw, and > >>> jSite/Thingamablog (if users want to contribute content, it's especially > >>> important to keep them). > >> My preference goes to this one. I'm not saying all client apps should > >> disappear, but IMHO basic functionnalities (chat, search, filesharing, > >> blogging) should be accessible though Fproxy, right after Freenet is > >> installed. > > > > This is a very attractive option in terms of solving the current complaints > > yeah. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080904/86e41d57/attachment.pgp>
