On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:03:29PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:45:25AM +0000, Toad spake thusly:
> > That is not a solution. Frost works, somebody would reimplement it, we
> > have no enforcement capability against them, and if frost died now
> > somebody would reintroduce it post 1.0 and mess up a network adapted to
> > no Frost. We need to make Freenet work WITH Frost.
> 
> Indeed, someone would reimplement it. If we actually did want to do it we
> would kill KSK's and frost would die as a result. We already tell people
> KSK's are insecure and they hurt the network etc. They really don't have a
> whole lot going for them. Although I agree we do need frost or something
> that provides the same sort of functionality

Wouldn't work. You can implement KSKs using SSKs - that what we do!
> 
> > > Freenet is still has a long way to go to get away from alchemy. It's as if
> > > there is no scientific process. The above is a good example. Regarding the
> > > major routing bugs that were found: Wouldn't some basic sanity checking
> > > have caught those? I suggested breaking out some of the methods in the
> > > routing table and providing some inputs and checking that sane outputs
> > > were produced and he seemed to scoff.
> > 
> > Not necessarily, how do you test routing?
> 
> The logic was backwards in the first major NGR bug. Wouldn't this have
> been revealed by plugging some values into the function/method in question
> and observing the results?
> 
> > > Reskill made a good point also: The 692 network DID perform better than
> > > the unstable network when the unstable network had just as few nodes. We
> > > found this out when unstable forked into its own network. Looks like the
> > > theory that any build would work well with so few nodes was incorrect too.
> > 
> > That was because of the anti-NGR bug.
> 
> Indeed. But it doesn't change the fact that he was right. :) He formed the
> 692 network precisely because of these sort of bugs. Fortunately 692 seems
> to have gone away and the main freenet network is showing signs of
> improvement except from routing.
> 
> -- 
> Tracy Reed
> http://copilotconsulting.com

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