On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:06:36PM +1200, David McNab wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 10:55, Ian Clarke wrote: > > It certainly seems to have a very nice UI, but the most important > > question is how does it find data efficiently and in a scalable manner > > while preserving anonymity - and for the life of me I can't find an > > answer to that question anywhere on their site. > > I believe they do deserve some support, even if temporary, so they can > grow their userbase to a point where these questions can be answered in > a real-life context.
Well, I would be content with this question being answered in *any* context :-) It isn't a hard question - when an Entropy node receives a request - how does it decide where to send it? This should be a trivially easy question for the developers of entropy to answer. In terms of whether we should support them - it appears that they have developed an impressive framework and implemented much of the complex crypto Freenet uses in C. Regardless of what routing algorithm they use now (if any), Entropy could provide a great starting point for a C port of Freenet (which would have to contain a reimplementation of NGR). Recall that the Java implementation of Freenet, Fred, is and always was only a reference implementation of the Freenet protocol, other implementations are always welcome provided that they do a good job of meeting the contract that Freenet nodes have with their peers. > Fred doesn't always find data, and if it does, it's not always > 'efficient' by any stretch of the imagination. Even major-league sites > like the portals linked from fproxy often have some problems loading. You completely missed my point - I wasn't asking a question about real-life performance, I was asking an implementation question about what algorithm they use to find data. Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Weblog http://slashdot.org/~sanity/journal _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
