On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:14:00PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> Shouldn't be necessary unless/until I implement encrypted native FS dirs
> - there is a strong argument that we shouldn't concern ourselves with
>   this, leave it to the OS.

After our previous bad experience with DIYing stuff that the OS (and 
specialized encrypted file-system softare) can handle, I think that this 
should be a very low priority.

Anyone paranoid enough to need an encrypted datastore should already be 
familiar with encrypted file-systems.

We may want to add a "README.PARANOID" document to the distribution 
which gives advice on further securing the Freenet experience (such as 
firewall modifications, encrypted/stego file systems, choice of 
web-browsers, modifications to web-browsers etc).

For the moment, I would argue that we don't try to implement additional 
security measures ourselves when there is specialized software out-there 
which already does the same job.

Ian.

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