Tom Kaitchuck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Perhaps instead of transferring all that data there should be a feature so 
> that you list specific nodes that you trust in your config file. Then 
> periodically when you are idle,

When you're *what*?  I don't ever recall seeing Freenet in such a
state.

> While it would be easy to tell if they are lying, the real disadvantage of 
> this, is that within a network of trust if any node is compromised, the 
> attacker knows the contents of everyone's store. It would also take a while 
> to transfer so many keys.

Transferring over a local area network would be orders of magnitude
faster than transferring over the Internet.  However, I see at least
two problems here:

1) How do you pull all the keys from a data store and inject them into
   someone else's data store?

2) Having done so, you've now destroyed all the routing information and
   specialization.  (On the other hand, this might be a *great* way to
   bootstrap a new �bernode... the catch being that people will only
   learn about the fact that this new node contains the keys they want
   if they happen to stumble across it randomly.)

-- 
Greg Wooledge                  |   "Truth belongs to everybody."
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