On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:52:33PM -0600, David Sowder (Zothar) wrote: > Colin Davis wrote: > > It solves #2- Don't run things you get in e-mail.. > > > > Instead of requiring a Noderef, allow someone to connect with just a > > password, and the IP address. This is something you can TELL someone, or > > say in an IM, no file transfer required. > > > I don't think we should necessarily categorically discount a fred-based > installer distribution servlet because of NAT problems. What if we > allow decoupling the installer from the noderef? Then those that can > overcome or don't have the NAT problem can host the installer.
They are a sufficiently small fraction of the overall target audience as to be uninteresting. UP&P would make them a large enough group to be interesting, although still only something like 50% because UP&P is extremely unreliable from what I have heard. > If I, > for some reason, cannot host the installer, perhaps one of my peers is > willing to share their installer hosting such that I could get "access > keys" from his node to pass out to my friends and include my noderef > from the distribution area of FProxy in the email I send to my friend > with the "access key". My friend saves the attached noderef (which was > attached as a file with a .fref extension) to a file, connects to the my > peer's installer host, uses the "access key", which will probably be > part of the URL, and downloads and installs the node. Then my friend > can double click on the .fref file he downloaded, which includes a > one-time code generated by the distribution area of my FProxy (or FCP > server) that my node uses to authenticate the addition of a node I > didn't already have the noderef of. Node installed in a decentralized > way. Peer connection created. This is not very clear. Please divide into what friend A does and what friend B does. > > Pass phrases could work, but I think they should have something like a > 32 character minimum length. (I wonder if there are passphrase > dictionaries yet.) Passphrases from movies or well-known-people are probably in a big list somewhere. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20070305/f17542c5/attachment.pgp>
