> It would seem that the scheme proposed (limiting connections to
> a few other nodes) doesn't really help in a totalitarian country.
> The government can set up a tap (or one could be already active, a la
> Carnivore) and discover that an "unauthorized" protocol is being run.
> Even the fact that you are sending out more than HTTP GET requests could
> be grounds for an in-depth investigation.
You would of course need to have a stealth node masquerading as something
other than a node. However, this is *not* enough because eventually you
have to act like a Freenet node and return some responses for some keys
otherwise you're not a Freenet node. So what you need to stay hidden is
the ability to not act like a Freenet node except with trusted
connections.
> In any case, I think this is beyond the scope of the current Freenet.
> It should probably be a separate project/library that Freenet can use as
> a communication layer.
Not at all. I could have a stealth node with trusted connection
authentication by the end of the month if I made it masquerade as an HTTP
server.
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