On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:41:53PM +0100, Julien Cornuwel wrote: > What about creating an official freesite where nodes could get > (automatically) the updates. > It would solve the problem of spreading updates at least for those who > already have a running node and we'd be sure that the entire network is > up-to-date a few hours after the release of the version... > Additionnaly, we could make the nodes able to spread the packages across > internet (as it actually works on 0.5).
Not a bad idea, Dijjer does it, but we must be careful to solve the trust issues. > > Minor issue : > If Toad or Ian (or anyone who knwos the private key of the freesite) is > arrested by the Police, they could force him to give the private key of > the freesite and blow every nodes... > I'm sure it can be solved easily ;-D Revocable SSKs. Give several trustworthy people SSK privkeys to be inserted if the main key is blown. > > What do you think about that ? Not for 0.7.0, or at least, not for the first public beta. But we should have an official freesite. -- 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/20060206/a874ea10/attachment.pgp>
