Matthew Toseland a ?crit :
> 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.

Right, I was thinking about the filesharing app that should offer this
choice.

>> 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.

Exactly.

>>>> 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?

Something like that. Forcing insert of identities once a week (or more)
is a good way to know which identities are 'alive' and which are not.

But that is not enough if we want it to work right out of the box. For a
beginner, all identities will look recent. Maybe I should add the date
of insert in the identity.xml file ?

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