Hi, thanks for your views, it made us think about what we're doing once again. Seems there's alot of options to be considered ;)
--* William Ahern (Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:05:26PM -0800) *-- > > This implicits public-key encryption along the mixed path up until it > > reaches the endpoint of the pre-routing phase, optionally requiring a > > pki type key distribution. Have the performance implications of this > > approach been studied before. One could think that it would severely > > downgrade network performance, as assymmetric encryption of large blocks > > of data takes alot of time. Is this kind of approach feasible in a > > real-time application such as Freenet? > i'm running a project (http://www.authnet.org/anonnet/) that implements > a pipenet (a type of mix-net). crypto primitives these days > are pretty fast. AES, for example, is much faster than DES. > the bottle-neck w/ these types of things is latency, > and for strong anonymity you have bandwidth concerns w/ regards > to padding and the like. > What's your view on merging both concepts (Freenet and Anonnet) to provide both publisher as requester anonimity, as stated on your webpage? --nico -- nico galoppo - tremelo/leuven, belgium - baalsebaan 163, 3120 tremelo --------------------------------------------------------------- [bash]:~$ man woman nico at crossbar dot net No manual entry for woman debian linux :: vim powered _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
