Re: [Freenet-dev] Node Operator Anonymity - the issues

[Ian Clarke]

> I think his point is that the main advantage of having multiple nodes
> residing behind a shield node, compared to just using the shield node
> itself, is that there's more disk space on the total set of nodes.

Well, I think that your view of this is slightly coloured by the
clustering proposal.  I don't see this as one shield node with a load of
nodes behind it, but where nodes randomly select a shield node whenever
they attach their address to a DataSource.  Of course, nodes want to avoid
selecting a node controlled by Darth Vader or whoever but they can either
rely on the fact that probabilistically it is unlikely that a random node
will, or they can confirm node authenticity through out-of-band means.

Ian.

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