On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:32:49AM +0100, George Hicken wrote: > > > [mailto:devl-admin at freenetproject.org]On Behalf Of Oskar Sandberg > > > > Don't you think you are contradicting yourself when you first say it > > makes no sense to encrypt the metadata, and then give the reason why it > > makes sense in the next sentence? > > > Those are simply the two possiblities that I could think of as to where the > metadata could be stored. There are reasons for and against both. > The impression that I had recieved was that the metadata was stored > unencrypted > due to the fact that there are quite a few mentions of using spiders on > freenet > as a possible indexing/searching mechanism. This implies that there is > unencrypted > data to spider.
You are confusing the network with the document web. A Freenet spider does not spider the network, which would imply going from node to node indexing the data, that cannot be done by design. It spiders the Web, reading a document and following any links in it (which are Freenet URIs in which the decryption key is encoded) irrespective of where they are. All Web spiders work this way of course, because HTTP does not provide an index of the files at a site either (in fact, all that is needed if for Google to install Freenet on there spider hosts). <> > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, above all shadows rides the Sun beyond all towers strong and high, and the Stars forever dwell: beyond all mountains steep, I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell. (JRRT) Oskar Sandberg oskar at freenetproject.org _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
