On Saturday 23 May 2009 00:13:44 Juiceman wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:25 PM, SmallSister development
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> One or more of your peers says that the auto-update key is blown!
> >> This means that an attacker may know the private key for the
> >> auto-update system and can therefore cause your node to run code of
> >> his choice (if you update)! The auto-update system has been disabled.
> >> It is also possible that your peers are deliberately lying about it.
> >>
> >> Your node has been unable to download the revocation certificate.
> >> Possible causes include an attack on your node to try to get you to
> >> update despite the key being blown, or your nodes lying about the key
> >> being blown. Please contact the developers or other Freenet users to
> >> sort out this mess.
> >
> > Is this serious, someone attempting a sick joke or a developer hitting
> > some wrong keys on his keyboard?
> >
> > Peter.
> 
> I would assume someone is running a rogue node that they edited the
> code to that is exploiting the node2node fast warning system.  It was
> only a matter of time before someone tried this.  If you see more than
> one or if your node sees it for itself then you might worry.

Agreed, it's probably not a problem. I certainly haven't blown the key.

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