Re: [Freenet-dev] Don't Talk To Strangers

[Scott G. Miller]

> 
> So it scans all 64,000 or whatever ports on every possible IP address,
> doing a DH key-exchange on each one?  Hmmm, yeah, that will work!
That really wouldn't slow them down Ian, because only the port running the
node will initiate a key exchange.  The rest would be silent and could be
triviallty detected as such.

> Freenet node.  What do they do?  They might be able to shut down a node if
> they happened to be fishing and catch an IP address within China, however
> the vast majority of Freenet nodes will not be within China meaning that
> even if they shut-down *every* Chinese Freenet node they would have no
> significant effect on the network - meaning that there is little point in
> them even trying.
Yeah.  Running a cluster with a controlled node list would actually *help*
them track down dissidents.  Because there's a single point of failure
(the gateway).

        Scott

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