On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:37:04AM -0500, bdonlan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 02 February 2003 08:49 pm, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > How do you see Frost going in the medium term? I think we need some > > convergence of Frost into Fproxy. For various reasons (mostly the fact > > that KSK-based boards are horribly floodable), I don't think we > > necessarily want a Frost-web-interface in the main freenet package > > yet... and we certainly would have second thoughts about packaging a > > GUI Swing client with Freenet. However, I think the following might be > > worth considering: > > * Signed, user-verifiable identities within Frost (but still based on > > boards, of course). > > * Automatic insertion of summary files with all files inserted by a > > given identity to a given board, or adopted by that identity (a > > checkbox when downloading?). Summary file contains metadata etc for > > each file, just as a message post would, but is cumulative. Is > > inserted at SSK@<pubkey of identity>/<board name>/<serial number> or > > some such standard place, with a well-known format. > > Actually, except for the boards, that sounds like FMB. And they're working on > boards, too. > > > * An fproxy filter to recognize these keys and turn them into a pretty > > HTML interface. Frost should have a link to them. > > I think that should be a separate app.
It will probably be more or less trivial, and making it look like HTML will be easy because the format is inherently a list of files and a list of links. It will SUBSTANTIALLY increase the content available through fproxy at very little cost, even to the inserters. > > > Thus inserts lead to BOTH Frost AND Fproxy being able to get to new > > content. I'm not sure whether we want to directly support KSK-based > > boards on Fproxy, but one possibility would be to add extra sections to > > the summary files listing other identities that insert useful stuff, > > creating a web of trust... what do you think about all this? -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://amphibian.dyndns.org:8889/A8dz8aYheps/ ICTHUS.
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