Has there been any discussion as to the possibility of creating a
FreeNet Process in the protocol.
This Process could have the following properties:
1) The executable would exists in the freenet, possibly split amongst many
nodes.
2) The process could be executed by determining its set of keys and would
return screen info to the executor.
3) The process would split its processing time amongst the nodes.*
4) The process would use the current freenet as short term memory and long
term memory.
The third property is the most interesting I think.
The idea here is to set up a freenet webserver, that will run in the nodes
away from hacking and prying intruders.
The idea of distributing the process amongst nodes would make it very
difficult to hack and might even be more efficient.
The intruders wont even know where to start hacking.
What say all?
HackerKungFu
One reply has been:
>
> Anyways... I don't understand how you your idea will work. Where does the
> executable code come from? How is it supposed to be executed? If untrusted
> code is to be run on nodes, this is clearly a major security risk. Not
even
> the Java sandbox is safe enough for this porpuse (it is susceptible to
> denial of service attacks by consuming all CPU and/or memory, for
example).
>
I replied :
If U mean DOS in the sense that tons of useless commands are directd towards
a process, then u are right.
I'm unfamiliar with the Java sandbox, but any computer or process is
susceptable already to useless comands.
Of course you could implement pattern recognition proceses that would
effictively identify repetative type attacks and re-route them to harmless
NULL space. The point is by distributing the process amonst the nodes, a
hacker would not be able to break into the particular machine the process
was running on and affect it that way. This is a much more serious and
dangerous type of crack than DOS. The code of course is trusted in the
freenet, but it is encrypted. The security problem arises when u have to
decrypt the code to execute a nodes portion of the process. A "Cancer" node
could screw with you there. But again the cancer node would never know
which process it was screwing with as it can't determine the node location
of the process. A Cancer node would therefore have to guess and hope the
particular target process was in its own node. Of course tons of Cancerous
nodes would be able to crack things. But of course as I read, cancer nodes
are already a serious problem with the current freenet. Freenet does not
guarantee anonymity and immunity from atacks, it simply makes it much more
dificult to implement an attack.
HackerKungFu
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