-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 December 2002 10:21 pm, The FLOG Index wrote: [snipped due to horrible mangling] > > The latency is definitly enormous - saying that it would be minutes is > well beyond reason. The actualy latency would be on the order of hours > at the minimum and days to weeks or even months at the top end. Routing > obviously will not work with such delays but thats ok - I never intended > for routing to be a part. I was thinking of a system that worked more on > randomness. Something along the lines of taking 180 megabytes (or what > ever the media size was) worth of keys from the datastore, at random, > and putting them on the media. When you give the media to someone else, > they import the keys (also possibly randomly if it does not make sense > to import the entire cd). This would mix things up and give a person > running a node even more plausable denibility that they did not request > the content they are hosting - this might even work in the case of a > transient node, if they participate in sneaker net their node will be > full of all kinds of stuff they never requested. >
Just think of it as a way to stir up datastores, and as a supplement to more traditional methods. Sneakernet would be a way to get random content distributed randomly. Since there is no regard for routing, it means that content that otherwise wouldn't have ended up in a certain part of the network will. That sort of influence, besides helping out with availability (you need some compromise between reliable routing and fortunate 'surprises), will help keep routing from stagnating, which is really an important thing. And, as flogdude mentions, it does help with plausable deniability. I like that, since I have to run a transient node most of the time. Anyway, I'd definitely like to see this happen. I'm not asking the dev team to do it (I don't think flog-guy is either), but we're just trying to throw some ideas around, since most of the people who know this sort of thing are around here. :) Anyway, Cheers - --hobbs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE99WaV6xdpaulLLFURAvCzAJ9xyPy9lE7qrhnb8s9xGacNBwCV+ACePahf PGSafyfUo2QeTbSarj98UbM= =vdRo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
