On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:52:18PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Mittwoch 05 April 2006 10:41 schrieb Josh Webb: > > It seems that the argument for a darknet is that somebody watching your > > traffic won't see you communicating with "known Freenet nodes," thereby > > making it harder to know if you're running a node. > > > > However, the effectiveness of this approach would seem to be mitigated > > by the fact that an observer who can tell if you are communicating with > > a "known Freenet node" will also be able to see that you are sending and > > receiving a relatively large amount of encrypted UDP traffic, which > > would tell them "something" is going on. If you were in a situation > > where simply running a Freenet node was something you wanted to hide, > > that "something" would be almost as bad. > > Then freenet will have to go one step further and mask the queries as regular > traffic. For example as image-data oder videostreams. > Someday it could even hide the data inside real videostreams and pictures, > which simply "donate" 1/3 of their banwidth to the secure communication, > while the rest is only video.
VoIP: take an H.263 stream, a call which you were going to make anyway. Keep the voice and use the video for Freenet data. > > Maybe people could hold an open video-conference while using the same > data-stream for secure data-transfer. Or VoIP. > > But naturally that would further increase the bandwidth need of freenet and > might not fit the timeframe where the network-topology is being formed as > first step, but it can well be a long-term goal. The real issue is that it would make it a truly non-real-time network. We need to be ready for this, but it's entirely feasible to have a good UI which makes this sort of thing useful. > > Best Wishes, > Arne > -- > Unpolitisch sein > Hei?t politsch sein > Ohne es zu merken. > - Arne Babenhauserheide ( http://draketo.de ) > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech -- 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/tech/attachments/20060405/f20fb490/attachment.pgp>
