Matthew Toseland writes: > On 31/01/16 04:06, Sadao wrote: >> Three years ago I started a thread on FMS with the topic "Efficiency >> of various freenet message systems", where I proposed to implement a >> new key type (PSK) in order to make a base for creating >> Now I returned again just to see that there is no progress. I still have >> spare time and willingness to write a new app, but there is no support of >> PSK keys. In theory, I could try to implement them myself, but it would take >> me years for that. On the other hand, it’s not so difficult for a person >> like Toad who knows freenet code very well. So I’d like to ask again: is >> there any chance that Toad could add the support of PSK keys to freenet in >> the near future? > > No. It'd be a fairly big project, and I'm busy until at least June. > After which time I may volunteer a little for Freenet in between work; > we no longer have any paid staff.
I’m sorry that I only write this now, but since Sadao complained on Frost that he considers Freenet dead after getting this response, I think it’s high time I write what I thought when I first read this thread. Toad, I think that you replied calmly that this is out of scope for the core team and would delay more important work shows that university helped you a lot in getting focus, and I think your answer is exactly right. We don’t even use most of the features Freenet already provides, much less document them. Adding PSKs now (and debugging them for years until we get rid of all the potential attacks against the network due to having a scripting layer in the storage) would block the core developers From doing the work which is actually needed to make Freenet suitable for general usage. Kudos for that. Sadao, PSKs do sound great. They could make forum systems more efficient by doing the relevant computations with much less network activity. But they are also pretty dangerous and their features can be replicated with existing key-types with sufficient efficiency to support groups of >100 regularly interacting people. Yes, it will be slower, but since FLIP gets round trip times of less than one minute, the existing technology can obviously be fast enough for most forum systems out there. This means, that I don’t see people diverting their effort toward implementing the prerequisites of a forum system you promise to do afterwards. If you want to contribute to Freenet, you can write many great applications by using the existing technology. For some notes on how to implement specific features, see the Freenet Communication Primitives: - http://www.draketo.de/light/english/freenet/communication-primitives-1-files-and-sites - http://www.draketo.de/light/english/freenet/communication-primitives-2-discovery Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken
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