Re: Crazy idea: How trust in darknets enables secure de

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:37:45AM -0700, pineapple wrote:
> --- Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > In order to participate on the darknet, you will
> > need to connect to a
> > few people who you actually know in the real world
> > or online. This is so
> > that the network can survive harvesting attacks and
> > therefore survive
> > its own illegality. That is independant of the
> > content of this email; it
> > is already decided, and it is essential for freenet
> > to be usable in
> > places where it will be illegal.
> 
> This is a fundamental flaw with the Freenet network,
> it only carries Freenet data. 

A "fundamental flaw", in your terms, with I2P is that it can only
provide the traditional centralized web model at present.

You can build Freenet on I2P using a DHT. You can build almost anything
on Freenet, IF Freenet works. If routing works, there are all manner of
services we can provide based on rendezvous-at-a-key. And I2P will
always be vulnerable to harvesting with current designs.

> I2P on the other hand,
> like the internet itself, can carry anything.  To
> elaborate, Freenet has additional baggage that I2P
> does not; mainly storing and forwarding content and
> having a weak encryption scheme for the datastore
> where censorship can be automated.

"Weak encryption scheme" ?!
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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