On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Mark J Roberts wrote:

> Ian Clarke:
> > Certainly, by removing a lot of the crypto in Freenet, you could probably come 
> > up with a system that is faster,
> 
> Crypto is cheap. It's not Fred's bottleneck by a long shot.
> 
> The only legitimate slowdown is the latency of a PKI key agreement,
> which requires a few packets back and forth. That's like 200ms.

You don't consider having to route data though other nodes all the time a 
slowdown?

> > What if that node goes down?  What if its connection is slow?  What if its 
> > data is so popular that the node goes down?  What if the data is available 
> > from multiple nodes?  You should stick to Freenet's caching algorithms, they 
> > are essential to Freenet's scalability and robustness.  If you don't care 
> > about those, then you shouldn't try to claim that your architecture is based 
> > on Freenet, since you will be throwing out most of what is valuable about the 
> > Freenet architecture.
> 
> He's actually planning to use probabilistic caching. I suspect that
> it won't nearly be aggressive enough.

Could you elaborate?

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