On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > After a long conversation with p0s, I am fairly sure that our decision at last > year's summit to use non-convergent encryption for splitfiles (i.e. a > different set of blocks each time) in order to largely solve our security > problems will make filesharing on Freenet much less convenient. > > Other points: > - The problem with persistence of data is frequently the top block. This can > be solved by duplicating it. This is easy for SSKs, but for CHKs would > require quite long URIs. This may be acceptable given the likely data > persistence gains. > - We must deal with the short segments problem. > - Node references should be tolerant of losing newlines and gaining new ones. > > I had hoped that we could release a 0.8.1 with solutions to the data > persistence problems and non-convergent encryption, but it looks like we will > need to wait for 0.9 with tunnels and bloom filter sharing. :(
I believe the persistence would be improved with tunnels -- blocks can be insert from different paths and cache differently.
