On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:56:59 -0700 Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 06:43:06PM -0400, Dan Merillat wrote: > > Correct answer is to use the same primatives to digitally sign each > > message so when someone rebroadcasts they send your signature as > > well. > > Perhaps the solution is to support a FCP feature which allows you to > obtain a SSK signature, which you can retransmit with a message, and > which can be used to verify (using another FCP command) that a message > is permitted under a given SSK without actually requesting it from > that SSK. That sounds pretty reasonable to me. Although personally I'd like to see GenerateCHK, GenerateSVKPair, and friends more easily available without being tied to the node, in the eventual future. I'd definitely be interested in seeing this for my FCP library, though, it's something that would be nice to see in apps. > A temporary solution would be to disable rebroadcasting for the > moment. I don't think, healthy freenet or not, that FMB could do much of anything without bundling of other peoples' messages. Although at least I haven't seen such a big mess on the announcement channel today.
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