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

[Ian Clarke]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:42:44AM -0600, Brandon wrote:
> 
> Brandon:
> > > However, I have some problems with it. The main problem is that you can't
> > > randomly select gateways as you suggest. Well, you can randomly select one
> > > the first time, but then all of the references to your node are based on
> > > this node. So you can't switch gateways. And if the gateway gets shut
> > > down the all of the references to your node are broken.
> 
> Scott:
> > Sure you can.  Why not? 
> 
> If you're running a shielded node, your address is relative to the address
> of the proxy node. I suppose you could say that you can "switch" proxy
> node by starting to send your messages through a new proxy, in which case
> you'll still be receiving messages from the old proxy but will now how two
> addresses by which you can receive messages. That's not advantageous from
> the point of routing, in which you want to a single address for each node.

Why?

Ian.

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