I want to first thank everyone for all the feedback I have been getting. However, I want to also make clear some things about DistribNet.
1) I want the system to be designed with scalability, availability of data, and speed in mind not absolute privacy and anonymity. 2) I want the network to be secure against attacks which can bring the network down but not against packet snooping. 3) I want to design the network so that old data rarely falls off the network. I want to make it possible to always find data on the network, even if it is only sitting on a far far away nodes. I believe this is entirely possible though careful indexing and routing. 4) It is not that I think that always routing data though other nodes is inefficient, I just think it inflexible. The main reason I am starting this project is that in my view freenet, as it now, is way to concerned with complete anonymity. And more importantly, it is overly concerned about preventing people from controlling what type of data is stored in there own node as demonstrated by the recent removal of the delete command and the fact that freenet stores all of its data in a single file with its own property indexing methods instead of relaying on the file system or other well established simple database system such as Berkeley DB. I am also not very happy about the fact the Freenet 0.40 was pushed on the end user way before it was ready as evident my the many "mandatory" updates posted and the constant need to reset the data store. Freenet 0.40 may be stable *now* but it sure wasn't in December and January. Someone also pointed out GNet to me which looks promising however it is too designed around complete anonymity. I have nothing against complete anonymity, it is just that I am afraid that both Freenet and GNet or more designed around the anonymity and privacy issues then they are around the performance and scalability issues. It may be that the Freenet network is able to perform very well however, based on what I have not seen any evidence of that so far. --- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
