Im not a freenet developer (let me make that clear), im just a sort of monitoring conversations for something interesting. I have to say that a centralized security system is not going to work to well, it will have the same problems as Napster, take out the centralized system you destroy the network. The point of decentralized is so that the network still exists/works even if you take out the big boys in the network. I also monitor the JXTA mailing list for interesting discussions and one of the discussions that came up was distributed security or distributed trust. Think of that old saying, you can fool most of the people some of the time and you can fool some of the people most of the time *but you can not fool all of the people all of the time*. The basis is that a P2P trust system could be built. The only issues that arise after this is not so much if an peer is trying to fool you, but if there is a conspiracy. The other thing that comes up, is reputation, using repuation to know whether someone is a good source of information or a bad source of information, reputation does not mix with anonymity. You might want to read through the JXTA mailing list, if not for the protocol of JXTA for the discussions there in. The way I see it though, is to give government no basis for information property, create a network that pays publishers/content creators (as well as computers to process data), and the excuse that they need a monopoly goes away, and gives an easier job to acedemics lawyers and politicians to get it abolished. I have presented my idea on how such a thing could be achieved in this mailing list once in the past and in JXTA some time ago. Leyland Needham _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
