On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:02:31PM +0000, toad wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:59:47PM +0100, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
< > 
> > Then obviously your neighbor node is not the one doing the inserting,
> > since nobody would insert an entire site with HTL 1...
> D'oh :)
> If you see 5 inserts a day in the same subspace at HTL=5?

I would be the first to admit that Freenet does not offer real
anonymity. I have never claimed it does. But trying to use a mixnet as a
transport would not be the right way to try to make Freenet anonymous -
you are much better off using the existing nodes to do a number of onion
routed steps before you start Key routing. The amount of traffic that is
currently being seen between Freenet nodes ought to be a wet dream for
anybody wishing to hide anonymous transactions. 

Preliminary onion routing has long been one of the things on the "when
everything else is working" list, and I think that is where it belongs. 
The only thing that the mixnet transport might give you is a measure of
anonymity for the nodes - but the mixnet itself has nodes, so that is
pretty pointless.

PS The size of the routing table and the fact that they are dynamic
makes your scenario pretty unlikely.

PPS HTL 5 is too little.


-- 

Oskar Sandberg
oskar at freenetproject.org

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