On l�r, 2003-03-08 at 16:56, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:26:15PM +0100, Lean Fuglsang wrote:
> > Is it possible to see what data comes through my node?
> > As I see it, all data is found with their hash key. Couldn't I just use
> > this key to see what content is on my disk?
> 
> Technically. However all known freenet 0.4/5/6 clients encrypt the data.
> You need the full URL, not just the data hash, to decrypt the data.
Aaaah, I think this is the point I missed. I guess these URL's never is
delivered between freenet clients. It is just something people *know*,
and is then able to decrypt the files. Very nice :)
The reason I asked, was if I could get into legal trouble if I had
illegal files on my computer.
But with the URL as an ekstra password, I can not directly decrypt the
data I have on my local drive. And the one making a claim, has to know
the excact url and the hash to know that I have illegal content.
Oh, man. It will be a very exciting time, when the first cases of
freenet comes to the court.
If they can get one person ruled guilty, freenet will be illegal with
one foul swoop. 
>  You
> can look at your datastore - it is not encrypted, it is all in files
> under dirs under the store dir, but you will not be able to get much
> information out of it short of spidering freenet and identifying a few
> (certainly not all) files...
> > If this is possible, it is also possible to sort malicious content out
> > of my node.
> It is entirely possible for you to delete files from your datastore, but
> as I said above, it would be difficult to find out what they were. The
> network is sufficiently dynamic, and nodes generally have sufficiently
> large stores, that it is totally infesible, _even if the data was not
> encrypted_ for the user to validate all content coming into the store to
> determine whether they want to keep it. It would be possible for the
> government or the courts to force node operators to use a hacked node
> that doesn't cache files listed on some blacklist somewhere, but again
> they would have to find the files to block them, and freenet exists in a
> large number of different countries.
> 
> > Please explain what magic you use to solve this problem :)
> > -- 
> > Lean Fuglsang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Lean Fuglsang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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