On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:58:50AM +0200, Arthur Bergman wrote:
> 01-08-06 21.36, skrev Nathan Torkington p? [EMAIL PROTECTED] f?ljande:
>
> > Someone who wrote a Freenet server in Perl would make my year. The
> > only implementation of Freenet right now is in Java, and my
> > experiments showed it to be hideous to configure and run. A version
> > that anyone with Perl could run would rock ...
> >
> > Nat
>
> Nat,
>
> How hard is the freenet protocol? I am not up to the task of writing a full
> blown server, but I could possibly write the protocol.
Some would say very difficult, but it's a matter of opinion I guess. The
various crypto layers would be the hardest part, after that the actual
messages are probably simpler than say HTTP.
The big problem is that it's not specified online anywhere (the 0.4/0.5
protocol anyway). I have an incomplete text file of one of Oskar Sandberg's
earlier attempts at a specification, but the protocol has changed some
since then. The java source code is unfortunately the only reliable spec.
Could I encourage interested people to subscribe to the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
list and make some posts asking for a protocol spec? We need to get the ball
rolling on that..
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