On May 12, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > On Tuesday, 12. May 2009 21:36:30 Matthew Toseland wrote: >> We are currently working on Freenet 0.8, which will be released >> later this >> year, and will include additional performance improvements, >> usability work, >> and security improvements, as well as the usual debugging. Features >> are not >> yet finalized but we expect it to include Freetalk (a new anonymous >> web >> forums tool), a new Vista-compatible installer for Windows (that >> part will >> be out in a few days), and hopefully Bloom filter sharing, a new >> feature >> enabling nodes to know what is in their peers' datastores, greatly >> improving performance, combined with some related security >> improvements. > > "...Bloom filter sharing. > > Bloom filter sharing will enable nodes to know what is in their peers > datastores without impacting anonymity and should result in much > improved > performance and better security." > > That would be my suggestion. > > Best wishes, > Arne
Except that it's not true... bloom filter sharing is at a large cost to security & anonymity (as said in the roadmap). -- Robert Hailey On Nov 13, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > TENTATIVE ROADMAP > > 0.8: > [...] > - Tunnels. Greatly improve security, significant performance cost. > - Bloom filters. Greatly improve performance, significant security > cost. > - BUT PUT THEM TOGETHER, and you get greatly improved security for the > paranoid at a slighty performance cost, improved security and current > performance or better for the moderately paranoid, and greatly > improved > performance for the not so paranoid. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090513/80677e7c/attachment.html>
