Just a simple question: Does it mean that the key would be closest to the location of the data source node?
Thanks, Michael Evan Daniel wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Michael Yip<mhy831 at cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> My name is Michael and for my MSc project, I'm trying to measure the >> information leakage to attackers from HTL and keycloseness to the node >> (the attacker's node). >> >> I was just wondering, are keys generated according to their location? I >> see that from the code that routing is done by: >> >> 1) the distance of the my node to the key >> 2) get the distance of my peers from the key and also, their peers' >> distance from the key >> 3) the peer which can offer the shortest distance would get picked >> >> I was wondering if keycloseness between a node's location and a key >> would change over time? Actually, when is a node's location generated >> and when would it change? >> > > On Opennet, it is randomly generated at installation and never > changes. On darknet, it can sometimes change via swapping. I highly > recommend you read the papers linked off the website. > > A key has several components. All URIs have an associated routing > key, which is the location. On CHKs, this is part of the URI, and is > based on the hash of the encrypted data. On SSKs, it is based on the > hash of the pubkey hash and the document name. I suggest the wiki as > a starting point: > http://wiki.freenetproject.org/FreenetZeroPointSevenKeys > http://wiki.freenetproject.org/Location > > If those aren't sufficient, please ask here and add more to them. > I've been slowly trying to improve the wiki, but there's a lot to be > done and I have other things to do as well, so help would be much > appreciated :) > > Evan Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
