This is already known, see: http://freenet.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=faq#sec4.1
Encryption of both the data and the communication protocol is good for a number of things beyond trying to achieve total anonymity however. And anyways, it is the Y2K, I don't think it is defendable for anybody to create a new Internet protocol that doesn't encrypt communication any more (except for a couple of fields like games). On Tue, 09 May 2000, Lawrence W. Leung wrote: > The point is we should keep in mind that although freenet gives a user a > better degree of anonymity it's just a distributed information network. > > Anonymity should be treated as a side effect of this, not the central > feature. What keeps information free is it's out of control of a single > user. The FBI or whatever agency can still nail you if they wanted to, > but that'll just take down one node out of millions. > > Recognizing this, if an illegal site *was* allowed to point to a single > node as an entry point, this would have the same deniability as the > central hub to a wan. It passes information - some illegal, some not. It > turns a blind eye to the information. This is deniability. > > If someone stashed a ton of cocaine in a supermarket and everone was > notified of this, the owners of the supermarket would most likely be held > accountable since they maintain their market and are expected to not > distribute drugs from it. They must report it to the police immediately > to not get in trouble. > > Our situation is more like having a huge warehouse. Millions of people go > in and out every day. Who knows if something in it is illegal. The > owners have little to no control over it. > > This is the deniability we should center on. Play with encryption all you > want. I dont think it's going to help. > > -Larry > > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
