On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:28:16PM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> When a site is published, a DNS record with the site's SSK public key and
> the site's domain name is written to this key index. A 'DNS daemon' harvests
> these records and writes them to another SSK - the FreeWeb DNS SSK, whose
> public key is hard-wired into the FreeWeb software. I trust that I'm not
> going to be asked to explain why the FreeWeb DNS SSK's private key is not
> also built into FreeWeb ;)
Ok, but this basically gives the controller of that private key (namely
you) the power to censor any sites which are linked to via your DNS
mechanism (by refusing to copy them into the private subspace). The
system could also be shut down by spamming the submission key index.
This defeats the whole point of Freenet.
It is also totally unnescessary, if people want friendly ways
to access their sites in Freenet, why not use KSKs - that is what they
are there for?
This additional layer is unnescessary and encourages incompatabilities
since only FreeWeb users will be able to access sites which are
advertised with a .free domain - where as it would be trivial to make
FreeWeb 100% compatable with existing tools by abandoning this
mechanism.
Ian.
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