On Thursday 30 Jun 2011 21:41:12 Markus wrote: > > Am 30.06.2011 20:09, schrieb Matthew Toseland: > > http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/index.html > > > > Can we learn anything useful from this? > > i tested the software "RetroShare" a few months ago and forgot to finish > *this* email. it is an anonymizing network like freenet, but has no > opennet-mode. it mainly works with tunnels instead of distributed data > storage. one exception is the included distributed hash-table. it is > used to store connection-information and offline-messages. > > The retroshare network looks really usefull, but the security is not as > good as freenet in my opinion. > > How it works: > > People connect to each other using their existing or newly created > gnupg-keys. while connecting, they sign the gnupg-keys of their friends. > With that, they build their web of trust. > > People can create boards similar to freetalk: All boards are visible to > all. Boards can be created in two ways: > - Allow Anonymous messages > - Allow Signed messages only > > They say, that signed messages are good to prevent spam. But i can see > no way to block spammers. > > retroshare does not distinguish trust in two levels like freenet: > network layer and "user layer" (like freetalk/wot). > if you are "in" the network, then you can spam, because you are trusted. > > Retroshare allows you to share an entire filesystem-directory to the > network. you don't need to "insert" the files. you just share them and > other can find it with the file search engine. i doubt that is is spam > resistant. > > can we learn something from this project? personally, i don't think so.
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