On Monday 22 Jul 2013 19:11:05 Robert Hailey wrote: > > On 2013/07/22 (Jul), at 12:53 PM, Robert Hailey wrote: > > > It may be that Freenet cannot "win" in the p2p paranoia market until it > > makes that [communication] workflow trivial > > At the risk of diverting attention away from (or confusing the ideas of) my > former discussion of using yubi for opennet refs... and furthermore risking > sounding like a yubikey shill.... > > I wonder if it is possible to make darknet connections in this manner: > > [suppose I'm at a friends house, and through conversation find interest in > secure communication with him] > (1) download/activate freenet on his computer, > (2) navigate to the [originally empty] "darknet peers" section, > (3) plugging in my "freenet [yubi] key", > (4) activating the yubikey somehow forms a darknet link (to my computer) from > his side, and > (5) he can get a yubikey later > > I know that it is possible to store a constant string in one of the two > yubikey modes (short press & long press), but I'm not sure it can fit a full > darknet ref... (and even then, I would need his node ref too). Arghh.
That's more or less what the smartphone app is for. On Monday 22 Jul 2013 19:21:40 Victor Denisov wrote: > > But let us not forget what I consider to be more common use case (for > > which we are not optimized and has nothing to do with child porn)... > > > > I have a friend, and would like to communicate with him/her > > "securely" in an email or instant-message like way. > > This is trivial without Freenet - just exchange your PGP keys and send > each other encrypted email. And I believe a number of XMPP clients also > support PGP encryption, solving the need for secure one-on-one and group > communications. It's not trivial in practice. It's surprisingly difficult to securely exchange files or fingerprints. So much so that it's largely limited to geek conferences. Hence the smartphone app. I do think that e.g. a Jabber gateway and other pure f2f stuff would be useful within Freenet.
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