have you joined the freenet-dev mailing list? in future i'd like to have these discussions there so that other people can see it too.
(03:53:26) lusha: hi, can i ask a question about WOT? (03:55:33) evanbd: No need to ask permission :) (03:56:12) lusha: is there any document for this? (03:56:32) lusha: i dont quite understand how they evaluate trust (i think) WoT uses a flow-based metric similar to advogato (www.advogato.org) - see the source code (plugin-WoT-staging), or ask p0s on IRC (xor on the mailing list) for specific details. atm the implementation requires retrieving trust scores for everyone on the network, which won't scale in the long run. (03:56:48) lusha: is this for darknet? (03:56:57) evanbd: No. (03:57:05) evanbd: WoT is unrelated to core routing, etc. (03:57:24) evanbd: WoT is purely for evaluating the users of messaging apps for whether or not they're spammers. darknet works on connections between *nodes*, ie. running instances of freenet. WoT works on virtual identities - whenever you make a new SSK (read about this on the wiki), the priv/pub keypair you generate gives you a cryptographic identity, which you can use as a pseudonym, or "virtual identity". these work on independent layers; darknet is on the node layer, WoT is on the application layer. so, eg. if you have the right keypair, you can update that virtual identity from any freenet node. every action done using the same identity can be inferred to be from the same person, but you don't know which freenet node they're running. (03:58:00) lusha: it is related to search, indexing, right? (03:58:15) evanbd: At present, no. Eventually, yes. (03:58:36) evanbd: Well, depending... (03:58:48) lusha: i know...because one of the project is to make search compatible with wot (03:58:52) evanbd: It's for messaging apps, filesharing apps, and other things with users. (03:59:07) lusha: actually, not search...but the scalable indexing approach (03:59:18) lusha: i am just not quite understand wot (03:59:30) evanbd: Well, IMHO that has "make search work" and "make distributed indexing work" as prerequisites, but others might disagree. (03:59:39) evanbd: What don't you understand? at the moment, the keyword search system works on the application layer. freenet (fred) itself has no conception of content semantics (impossible anyway since everything is encrypted) X
