On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:26:24PM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: > I was swapping references in the #freenet-refs channel on IRC when an > idea came up - having a Freenet plugin that would scrape noderefs off > the IRC channel, or maybe post them online. Initially it seems like a > wonderful idea - the more connections the better, right? So then I > started looking for plugin documentation... oops, none yet. My current > plan is to have a small PHP script that parses the > http://localhost:8888/darknet/ page But before I dive in and start > coding, I was wondering if there were any issues with doing this. I'm > the first to admit I don't have a good understanding of Freenet or > darknets in general, but it seems to me that more connections is better, > and that any adjacent nodes shouldn't be able to compromise your privacy > (any more than is already possible due to the alpha state) because > anything coming through your node could have been bounced off of you by > any of the other nodes adjacent to you - or is this no longer true of > .7? (I seem to remember it as a large part of .5)
It was never 100% true, but it is less true of 0.7 than of 0.5. The reason is that statistical attacks are possible based on correlation between keys. There are also unfortunately issues with the load balancing scheme we use at present. But the main reason it is less true of 0.7 is simply that routing is more predictable. Anyway, this sort of thing is a bad idea in general. Both sides need to have the other's reference in order for a connection to happen, so it is somewhat futile. But the basic problem is we need as close to a small world topology as possible. Automated harvesting like this generally won't produce that. > > Is this a worthwhile pursuit? No, sorry. > > Thanks for any tips, > Steven Schlansker -- 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/20060421/63977d89/attachment.pgp>
