That is not a bad idea, although a major down-side is that it requires that the recipient of the invite is already connected to Freenet. Our biggest challenge is making it as easy as possible for new peers to join the network - although increasing the connection density of peers that are already part of the network is also important.
Ian. On 22 Jun 2006, at 09:17, Yongqian Li wrote: > I have an idea for implementing invitational references. Bascially, > in the reference would be a private SSK. When a client receives > such an invitation, it would insert its own ref under the private > SSK which the sender of the invitation can regularly check. This > can be extended to allow an invitation to be used multiple times: > the receiver of the invitation would just try to insert under > SSK at blahblah/1/ and if it fails under SSK at blahblah/2/ and so on and > the sender can check under those as well. > > I am not sure about the security implications of such a system or > how hard it is to implement but I think it can make adding peers > easier. Of course, the person being invited has to be on the > network already... > > Express yourself instantly with Windows Live Messenger > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060622/60dd9837/attachment.html>
