On Thursday 23 April 2009 09:37:45 Daniel Cheng wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Matthew Toseland > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > After a long conversation with p0s, I am fairly sure that our decision at last > > year's summit to use non-convergent encryption for splitfiles (i.e. a > > different set of blocks each time) in order to largely solve our security > > problems will make filesharing on Freenet much less convenient. > > > > Other points: > > - The problem with persistence of data is frequently the top block. This can > > be solved by duplicating it. This is easy for SSKs, but for CHKs would > > require quite long URIs. This may be acceptable given the likely data > > persistence gains. > > - We must deal with the short segments problem. > > - Node references should be tolerant of losing newlines and gaining new ones. > > > > I had hoped that we could release a 0.8.1 with solutions to the data > > persistence problems and non-convergent encryption, but it looks like we will > > need to wait for 0.9 with tunnels and bloom filter sharing. :( > > I believe the persistence would be improved with tunnels > -- blocks can be insert from different paths and cache differently.
Why? If specialisation works, and IMHO we have no reason to think it doesn't, then it will land up on the same nodes. The problem is simply that those nodes go offline. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090423/266dbd1f/attachment.pgp>
