Re: [Freenet-dev] Node Operator Anonymity - the issues

[Travis Bemann]

On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:30:53PM -0600, Brandon wrote:
> 
> Ian:
> > I am sure there is a proof somewhere that a functional freenet with no
> > public nodes is an impossibility.  Don't ask me to find it though.
> 
> Not a "Freenet", perhaps. But you could certainly have a network with
> Freenet routing which had no public nodes. It's just that no one has a
> scheme for this that isn't slow in a practical sense. I wouldn't call that
> provably impossible as much as impractical to implement.

It is easy to implement such a thing in Freenet but it has the
inherent problem of *zero* path compression and it would rely purely
on caching for any respectable amount of speed.

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