Re: Distributed file system using routing inspired by Freenet

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Michael Rogers <m.rogers-kecf2yCh/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 9 2008, Matthew Toseland wrote:
>  > Well the problem is what to do with single blocks... A frost post is an
>  > SSK plus usually a CHK for example. If a splitfile is inserted as a CHK,
>  > there will be a single top level block for the CHK. Granted these are
>  > more popular than the splitfile blocks...
>
>  Ah, I see what you mean, the top level can't be FECed because we don't want
>  to have to use several keys to identify the file.
>
>
>  >> Good point, I guess it's a waste of bandwidth to store data on a
>  >> transient node.
>  >
>  >But how would we implement that?
>
>  Don't send inserts to, or accept inserts from, peers unless they've been
>  active for x of the last y hours? But I reckon it would annoy people to be
>  told that they couldn't post a Frost message because their node wasn't
>  reliable enough, it would cause the store to fill up even more slowly, and
>  might it also have implications for anonymity?

Also, remember one of the target audience for Freenet is dissidents or
someone with important whistle blower information that needs to be
released anonymously.  Can we expect these folks to run a node for
several hours just to publish data?