Fair enough. Running a node involves trusting people. Running an opennet node involves trusting total strangers. We can improve on our security against treachery to a degree, so that you don't have to trust your peers quite as much, but the more powerful techniques for improving security, such as premix routing, are difficult (and so won't be implemented until 0.8), and rely on the darknet topology to ensure that they aren't compromized by an attacker impersonating multiple nodes.
BTW this whole conversation has been moved to the chat list. On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 02:32:43PM -0400, Nicholas Sturm wrote: > > > > Really, if you don't trust anyone, you shouldn't be using the internet, > > and you probably should reconsider whether life is worth living. :) > > I trust a lot of people a little bit. I don't trust many people a lot. > And I've never really become acquainted philosophically with anyone on > freenet. > > Apart from band width perhaps that's why I read the lists, but no longer > run a node. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20060829/15fb2097/attachment.pgp>
