I am looking into setting up a distribution where Tor or freenet is used to create a secure and anonymous environment for communicating.
One of the issues with freenet is that it is slow. I haven't used it in many years and do understand it has gotten much better. I also am aware that after a few days it gets faster as popular data is retained and gets 'cached' on your node and nearby nodes based on what those around you are doing. What I'm trying to figure out is what happens when your node is not on 24/7 and you can only connect infrequently for several hours at a time. Many users have a persistent local threat that they need to be aware of. Leaving a server running is not an option as it could be compromised by an adversary. Removable media can reduce that threat. What I'm looking to find out is if you run a freenode from a removable media and then run a local server running freenode to use as one of your peers (which could be on all the time) does this post a threat? If no local server is run that you peer with how is the speed if you only connect every few days? Is running freenet for a few hours to several hours going to be sufficient or will it be unbearably slow? With Tor speeds are frequently severely limited. Especially with .onion nodes. Some non-onion servers can be accessed with significant speed though for sustained periods (15-300... maybe faster). _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
