Software isn't like playdough, you can't take two different software projects and just stick them together, and expect the result to make sense (even if the projects have related goals).
In terms of the benefits of an alliance with Tor I'm afraid you're being naive. From Tor's perspective, an "alliance" with Freenet would make absolutely no sense. They'd essentially just be diverting developers, users, and funding away from their own project. Don't get me wrong, they're nice guys, but it would simply be irrational. Tor and Freenet might be related at a high-level, but this whole idea that separate software projects should all be glued together into one huge mass of bloatware is very misguided. It's the polar opposite of the Unix philosophy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy>. I wish people would stop suggesting it. It wouldn't solve any problem and would be a massive waste of time and resources. Ian. On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:35 PM, <salutarydiacritica...@ruggedinbox.com> wrote: > I am a Freenet user and want you to succeed so look at my words from that > angle. > > You are missing out on an obvious natural alliance with Tor that can bring > in many benefits from funding, users, publicity and manpower. The Tor > project also invested a lot in private client side applications like the > Tor browser and Tor birdy that you can combine. Not to denigrate your work > but its fact, their anonymity transport layer is more advanced and has > undergone more scrutiny and is trusted. I've talked with people who love > the Freenet concept but are reluctant to use it because they don't feel its > powerful enough to withstand NSA. I find it hard to convince them otherwise > when there is a trickle of papers about Freenet's anonymity protection and > no mention of it being a challenge to NSA like the Tor slides and they > trust what Snowden used. > > With that said, Freenet's real power is resilient and distributed data > hosting, unmatched by Tor hidden services that were designed as an > afterthought. Together both technologies are a perfect fit. They should not > compete. > > My point here is to keep the parts of the protocol where Freenet users can > automatically find each other and request data but to offload the traffic > hiding part to Tor. Don't put users in a situation where they have to > choose between both. Each project does one thing well and together they > give users the cypherpunk vision of freedom. > > More users means more technical people who will become interested and help > out. It becomes self sustaining. You've built it but you need to integrate > it right and they will come. > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl@freenetproject.org > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
