I also only store IP addresses in their hashed form, when they are being stored permanently. By doing so, you can later recognize if the IP address is the same, which is all that's needed. This method allows for somebody to steal your hashed IP address, and it will take a lot to do a brute force attack to figure it out, especially if a timestamp is thrown in to randomize it. That's an example of how I respect the individuals privacy, but still get the system to function when it simply must identify somebody in order to accomplish its job.I've had to think about this a lot, because the file system basically monitors what you do, FOR PERFORMANCE REASONS.Because people are creatures of habit, there are patterns. Once detected, the patterns can trigger pre-loading of files into the cache, that are PREDICTED to be accessed. Local file system's will forever outperform network file systems. My goal is performance, not auditing. It's designed so that the information that is stolen from it is essentially useless. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 6:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [freenet-tech] RE: [freenet-chat] RE: I've designed a global file system,... 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 _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
