On Sunday 21 September 2008 01:15, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On September 18, 2008, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > Freenet 0.7 build 1164 is out. Please let me know if auto-update doesn't work. > > > > The main change in 1164 is no-swap-on-opennet. > > I agree this is going to help with long term data retension. I do wonder what its effect on node 'security' will be?
I don't see why it would have much effect. > >From now any opennet node has a fixed location. This means that it can be easily probed to see if it has specific > pieces of data. This was a harder prospect in the swappable opennet... It can be easily probed anyway, what's the problem here? > > It also implies that opennet is going to become the repository of most of freenet's data - even for darknet > nodes. What effect will this have on their security? Darknet nodes hopefully have long-lived connections and reasonably good uptime, so their locations should be reasonably stable, unlike on opennet. > > Comments? > Ed -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080923/0e635d60/attachment.pgp>
