On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 15:29 +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote: > We have several major problems: > 1. We need a major injection of cash. > 2. We will not have a big connected darknet any time soon. > 3. Opennet is not secure unless users pay for introduction. > 4. Opennet is slow because of lowest common denominator load. > > I propose: Freenet Rebooted. > > A Kickstarter, but based on extending the current code, not a full > rewrite. A lot of it actually works reasonably well. > > MAJOR CHANGES: > 1. Darknet enhancements, but we recognise that we will need a large, > fast opennet backbone to connect the darknet pockets for the time > being. > 2. You can only run a Full Opennet Node if you have an Opennet Invite > and meet bandwidth/performance requirements. > 3. Only Full Opennet Nodes route tunnels and/or high HTL traffic. > 4. There may be further restrictions for security reasons, if so we > will > ensure that an OI still gives performance benefits (even if you are > not > routing traffic). > 5. Opennet tunnels via ShadowWalker. > 6. Better seednodes. > 7. Most of the enhancements to other areas we've previously > discussed. > 8. Transient mode reintroduced, so opennet Freenet is still free as > in > beer, and secure with tunnels. Great for uploading on the run! But > transient nodes don't route traffic/tunnels and get lower > performance. > 9. Investigate hardware partners and home-server UI issues. Long term > we > need cheap, convenient hardware nodes, because we need uptime. > > Initially we aim to raise $1M. Anyone who donates $100 gets an > Opennet > Invite, so this is 10,000 users. Hardware nodes might be a good donor > perk too. In future we anticipate charging for OI's, but expect an > increasing proportion to be provably given to other worthwhile, > respected and relevant charities e.g. EFF: The price paid to become > part > of the network infrastructure is mainly a deterrent to large scale > attacks, rather than a means of raising revenue. > > Thoughts? >
This assumes that Sybil is the only attack against opennet... which is clearly misleading. Sybil is the obvious, cheap attack; the nastier ones are all those related to "open" topologies and protocols: partitioning attacks, correlation attacks, ... for which we don't have solutions either. Florent
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