-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 December 2001 17:39, you wrote: > --* Sebastian Spaeth (Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:45:32PM +0000) *-- > > > > For example, why would I want to know that some node at the end of the > > > path replies with a Reply.NotFound message? What kind of discriminating > > > information could I get from that? > > > > You could learn what files another person has in its datastore and then > > just arrest him or make him take his Freenet node down (if its is e.g. > > something illegal). What would be the reasoning for encryption the > > datastore or even the tranfers when you could learn anyway who has what > > data in his store... > > Sebastian > > When I issue a request for an illegal file on the Freenet network, and > it is returned to me, every node on the path will cache it. So that > means the person I asked first will end up having the illegal file in > his store anyway, so why bother knowing that he had it before?
Because the *attacker* doesn't know the diffrence between that node having it before or not. For all he knows, that node could have just cached it like all the rest and the request he made only succseeded in spreading the data that he wanted to get rid of. - -- Timm Murray - ----------- This message has been encoded ROT26. Decoding is punishable by death under the DMCA. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjweudkACgkQqpueKcacfLR2VACbBf68U8bk5gzHCc6ou722Vu1k f3wAn2okQc2AJfEc2Vyshuyj8/K2oWGW =hanS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
