In "Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System" (Ian Clarke, Oskar Sandberg, Brandon Wiley, and Theodore W. Hong), page 10:
However, in order for existing nodes to discover them, new nodes must somehow announce their presence. This process is complicated by two somewhat conflicting requirements. On one hand, to promote e cient routing, we would like all the existing nodes to be consistent in deciding which keys to send a new node (i.e. what key to assign it in their routing tables). On the other hand, it would cause a security problem if any one node could choose the routing key, which rules out the most straightforward way of achieving consistency. I don't exactly understand the real problem in joining the network with a chosen key. by the way: does this process (the cryptographic protocol of generating the key) has to be done every time if the node is transient ? Bye, and thanks! Davide _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
