--* Tavin Cole (Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:58:28AM -0500) *--

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:39:19PM +0100, Nico Galoppo wrote:
> > I am working on a thesis around P2P anonimity. We're investigating the
> > possibility of improving the anonimity characteristics of Freenet in
> > particular.
> > 
> > What are the opinions of the freenet developers on a pipenet-like
> > 'frontend' to Freenet? Could it be a plausible extension to the basic
> > Freenet, much in the same way as a 'mixnet' frontend has been proposed
> > before. What could be the added benefits in providing a higher degree of
> > anonimity, in particular for document inserters and retrievers?
> > 
> > AnonNet is such a pipenet implementation, what we would like to do is
> > integrate into the Freenet core. Could the existing Freenet PKI be used.
> > What is its status anyway in the CVS code?
> > 
> > All suggestions, remarks and questions are welcome,
> 
> Can you explain more about pipenets and AnonNet in particular (maybe
> some URLs)?  I'm guessing it works at the transport layer, so in Fred
> you would write an AnonNet transport (see freenet.transport.* -- right
> now the only transports are TCP and SSL).

Here's the link to AnonNet: http://www.authnet.org/anonnet/
For information on the pipenet model, go to
http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai/pipenet.txt

I'm not sure where it would fit into Freenet. I'll have a look at the
transport layer asap.

--nico


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