On Friday 18 Feb 2011 19:40:59 Dennis Nezic wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:01:10 +0100, folkert wrote: > > What about that the freenet daemon periodically > > (configurable/disable-ble of course) announces itself on the lan(s) to > > which it is connected? That way freenet-nodes can interconnect and > > speed up distribution of data. > > Data distribution on Freenet doesn't work like that. Data segments are > actually spread all across Freenet, ideally with no particular peer > having a large portion of a large splitfile. I don't think having fast > random LAN connections would speed things up -- the bottleneck will > still be the LAN's connection to the Internet. (Not to mention the fact > that it would be at least somewhat less secure. (Better chance of > traffic analysis and such tricks against you.))
If the requests are served from the other node's cache then the risk against a distant attacker is significantly reduced. The risk against that other node increases, of course - this is the tradeoff. Bottom line, more friends is better if it means you can turn off opennet, and if you do actually know them (even if you don't trust them absolutely, they're still better than opennet).
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