On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 07:37:27PM +0200, Julien Cornuwel wrote: > Matthew Toseland a ?crit : > > >My understanding is that the french crypto regulations were abandoned > >some time ago. > > That law is just a project (no decree yet). For the moment, we're still > limited to 128b.
That's bizarre. Nobody can actually break 128 bit AES at the moment, as far as we know - why have an upper limit that can't be broken anyway? > > >Make your own darknet. :) > >Then come to Bristol, take me out for a pizza, and I'll connect to your > >node ;). Seriously, there needs to be some sort of relationship for the > >small world properties to hold, but beyond that it's not such a big > >deal. > > Some of us think about it but I see 2 problems to that : > - We don't know each others and can't trust one not to be part of DST > (our MI-5) or SNEP (our RIAA). So we can't reasonably reveal our real > identities. It depends on how paranoid you are. While it is possible that somebody is a mole, infiltrating networks like that is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more expensive than just harvesting the opennet. Infiltrating social networks via actual social connections is seriously expensive. > - If we do that, newcommers will be completely alone and we won't be > able to guide them or invite them into the darknet. > > OK for the pizza as long as it has cheese on it ;-) > > >>I'm affraid that if this fonctionnality isn't enabled in Freenet, people > >>will do it by other ways (internet forums, mailing-lists, weak encrypted > >>emails, etc.) which are way less secure than Freenet. Or worse, some > >>will decide to publish their keys and allow anyone to connect to the > >>darknet through them... > >> > >> > > > >In which case there will be weak segments of the darknet. That does not > >undermine the whole structure. The mainstreamers can still use the > >opennet. I expect there to be some cross-recruiting. But the intention > >is for the darknet to be separate from the opennet. People who happen to > >be on both can migrate content manually. They can also get to know > >people on the opennet, and perhaps add them later. I first met Ian after > >having worked for him for around a year; I have a friend in Australia who > >I've never met but I would be perfectly happy to connect my node to. But > >at this stage, I would happily connect to Newsbyte. Or CofE if I knew > >him, but I obviously wouldn't want him to breach his carefully guarded > >anonymity just for that. :) > > > > Mmm, well. Let's wait and see how that will work. Middle 2006, it'll be > clearer... > > Thanks for your answers. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20050919/c69ffb75/attachment.pgp>
