On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Ian Clarke <ian.clarke at gmail.com> wrote: > > I too have observed that being less ambitious can dramatically increase the > chances of success, and I seem to re-learn it about once a year :-)
Haha! I know what you mean. > I'm not quite sure if I understand your point about web integration, Freenet > has had a web interface from the earliest days, perhaps if I were more > familar with Tahoe-LAFS I'd understand what you mean here. Hm, yes, Freenet has always had some sort of gateway which would serve up documents from Freenet to an unextended web browser, hasn't it? I wonder what that Freenet developer and I were disagreeing about at Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2010 then. It was a one-hour meeting during the 2-day summit, on the topic, I think, of "security and distributed systems". There were about 20 GSoC mentors in attendance. I remember the Freenet hacker (and I'm sorry that I've forgotten his name) saying emphatically that the description I gave of Tahoe-LAFS sounded insecure because the user was constantly using a web browser to load content. Perhaps the difference he was thinking about was that I made it sound as though the web interface was the primary or only way to access content in Tahoe-LAFS, and perhaps in Freenet the web interface is considered secondary or optional. Do people commonly browse hypertext documents loaded from Freenet which contain links to other documents also loaded from Freenet? In Tahoe-LAFS, we embed the "caps" (which are similar to, and partially inspired by, Freenet CHKs and SSKs) into URIs and use them as references to documents. Regards, Zooko
