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
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