On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Kieran Donegan <kdonegan.92 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm a second year BSc Computer Science student in University College Cork,
> Ireland. Freenet's development goals really resonate with me and I'd love
> to help enhance Freenet for GSoC this year. My Java skills are excellent
> and I have a good knowledge of application layer and transport layer
> networking protocols. My security knowledge however is basic to
> non-existent. Being that security is one of the main concerns when
> operating a service like Freenet would I be hopeless in contributing to the
> project? I have a keen interest to learn however and would appreciate some
> pointers on how to get started before GSoC kicks off.
>

In addition to other people's replies, you may also be interested to learn
more about security.  The book "Applied Cryptography" looks a bit
intimidating from the outside, but it's actually a really good read - and
very accessible (if kinda expensive).

Ian.

-- 
Ian Clarke
Founder, The Freenet Project
Email: ian at freenetproject.org
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