On Mon, 14 May 2001 13:35:30 +0200 "Stefan Reich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Josh wrote:
> >I can tell you from experience, because I've been researching the
> same
> >thing, "distributed security" is an oxymoron. Only a single
> security
> >authority can make a global file system work.
>
> Why, no. The way Freenet uses public keys to identify publishers and
> ensure
> file integrity is truly distributed and very secure. It doesn't
> require a
> central security authority.
Yeah, SVK>SSK is the most secure, and totaly anonymous of all the keys on
freenet, if you want to have some semblance of file content guessability
and secure, private, file insertions.
Why have a central athority for anything? We all go through life trying
to figure out who we can and cannot trust, and we learn from experience
and from other's experiences. So if you get a file from some SSK and the
file has a really nasty virus or webbug or something, then you put that
SSK in your "Not Trusted" list and tell your trusted friends about your
experiences. And they will also probably add that SSK to their "Not
Trusted" lists.
I don't need anyone, least of all the Government, telling me who I can or
cannot trust, or who I must or must not trust. It is totaly up to me to
decide that.
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