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

Matthew Toseland (toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]) wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:33:15PM -0400, Juiceman wrote:
> > If you really feel the need to do something like this:
> >  Why not just support blacklisting of CHK's that are known objectionable 
> > material. If the node comes across a request for one of these, it will pass 
> > it along but refuse to cache it thereby making people feel all warm and 
> > fuzzy about not helping the c.p. or whatever spread.
> 
> Because this would be a token gesture. It would not be useful, it would
> tend to undermine routing, [...]

I think you need to stop thinking of Freenet as a collection of
homogeneous nodes.  The code is freely available.  Someone *will* code
a blacklist feature, and Freenet nodes *will* misbehave in various ways
you haven't thought of yet (whether due to malice, bugs, human error,
resource limitations, or acts of aliens/gods).

The routing algorithms will be ready for prime time when they can cope
with all of that.

If someone's blacklist feature breaks the current routing algorithms, then
the current algorithms are simply not adequate to the real-world demands
of the Freenet network.

-- 
Greg Wooledge                  |   "Truth belongs to everybody."
[email protected]              |    - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
http://wooledge.org/~greg/     |

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