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

[Ian Clarke]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:24:44PM -0800, Mr.Bad wrote:
> >>>>> "IC" == Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>     IC> I don't think that there is any system that could facilitate
>     IC> scalable information request/retrieval which doesn't at least
>     IC> place some trust somewhere.
> 
> I totally agree. However, the person I was responding to (gosh, lost
> that message already) had said that Freenet now was a "zero-trust"
> system. I think it's more like a 100%-trust system.

Well, I don't agree with either.  I think that you do need to assume
that most (don't ask for a percentage!) Freenet nodes will not be
hell-bent on your destruction.  This will be a reasonable assumption
if/when Freenet is widely deployed and used. 100%-trust would imply that
even one corrupt node would screw the system, this would clearly be a
rediculous scenario.

Ian.

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