On Wednesday 22 May 2013 23:06:35 Zwiebelcode wrote: > Hi developers, > > i read on this mailinglist, that maybe tunneling is a feature that will > be realized next (If i understood that correctly). If freenet goes in > the direction of tunneling, would it make sense to combine freenet with > another technologies like tor or i2p? i2p is java and there is also a > java implementation for tor (silvertunnel).
Tunneling over a DHT, such as I2P, is an unsolved problem. That is, the best academic DHT tunneling algorithms have severe problems. Tor avoids this by not being a DHT at all; but that doesn't really solve the problem, Sybil attacks (one person contributes thousands of relays) are still a real threat, as are route selection attacks in general. Darknet freenet could solve this problem: There are algorithms for setting up tunnels over a darknet (where we have friend-to-friend social connections) that are much more secure. > > maybe every freenet user should have an onion-identifier. freenet could > then connect to all neighbour freenet-nodes like tor does (using > circuits). and it will be compatible to tor, so the tor users could > create some noise on freenet nodes, which would be good for diversity of > freenet and for the performance of tor. Connecting to our direct peers over Tor would be total madness. It would significantly reduce performance for zero actual benefit. And it would be just as easy to block as Tor is, i.e. very. What we could do is tunnel before a request reaches Freenet. That means running public gateways (or possibly some other protocol) over Tor hidden services. If somebody wants to set such gateways up that would probably be a good thing.
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