On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Mark J Roberts wrote: > > Basically, what I'm talking about is the idea of using FreeNet as > > a mixnet, rather than a file store pre se. > > It's possible, though Freenet isn't optimized for that - its > performance and the strength of its anonymity would suffer,
I can definitely see that how the performance would be negatively impacted, as there would be no caching of the dynamic content. But how would the anonymity suffer? I suppose that given enough time, effort and network monitoring all over the internet, the requests could all eventualy be tracked back to the singular source server. This cannot be done as such for static cached documents as they will generally come from different servers. Still that is probably an acceptable downgrade, as it still makes things sufficiently difficult to trace. Performance, however, would be a more important issue, as far as I can see. Given a fast and well connected node, what would the latency be expected to be like? My perception is that the files seem to take a long time to be found (sometimes a high HTL value is required to get anywhere), but once they are located, they tend to come down reasonably quickly. The main requirement would be to get the pages back before the browser times out. I would love to see an Apache plugin that allows it to plug straight into freenet through the local node. Anyone have any idea as to what it would take to do this? > and your web server could be DoSed with impunity (which is a grave > problem in any anonymous system). What do you mean by "impunity"? > > 3) Is it normal for FreeNet server to spawn about 200 threads when it starts > > up? With both Sun's and IBM's JREs, the performance can get quite dismal - to > > the point of the mouse pointer skipping on a dual P3/1GHz, even when FreeNet > > is run at priority 15 (under Linux). > > Dismal performance, bugginess, and general unpleasantness should be > expected. Fred sucks. I take it that this is being worked on, then... Regards. Gordan _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
