On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 06:23:46PM +0200, blueCommand wrote: > Hello! > > I was wondering if anybody could please explain what Freenet 0.7 will bring? > As I've understood it we will all be disconnected to small private networks > with like 20-40 people that we choose and trust? > > Will Freenet become just many darknets? Please don't say it will. > > The other way I've inpretted is that certain people can choose to connect to > them they trust and so on but there stil will be a global network but nobody > will directly talk to a untrusted node.
No. There's a lot of FUD and confusion going around regarding 0.7's darknet functionality. Here are the facts: 1. Freenet 0.7 can do either an open network, or a scalable darknet. 2. These are not separate networks; nodes can participate in either or both. 3. Open network means more or less the same as in 0.5. Node references are passed around openly, the network tells your node who to connect to, and you can start a node from scratch by just downloading the source (or binary) and seednodes from freenetproject.org. The downside is that every node on the open network can be found relatively easily by a fairly weak attacker, just by running a node. 4. Scalable darknet means that you connect to your friends, they connect to their friends, and so on. This creates a semi-"cellular" network, but it can scale to arbitrarily large networks. There will inevitably be some small darknets, and some large ones. Darknets are invulnerable to the attack mentioned above, which is called "harvesting", and also it is much more difficult to attack a darknet in general. > > I'm a bit confused :) > > Greetings! -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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