Revocable SSKs, see rest of thread.
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 05:14:17PM +0200, Jusa Saari wrote: > On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:41:53 +0100, Julien Cornuwel wrote: > > > What about creating an official freesite where nodes could get > > (automatically) the updates. > > It would solve the problem of spreading updates at least for those who > > already have a running node and we'd be sure that the entire network is > > up-to-date a few hours after the release of the version... Additionnaly, > > we could make the nodes able to spread the packages across internet (as it > > actually works on 0.5). > > > > Minor issue : > > If Toad or Ian (or anyone who knwos the private key of the freesite) is > > arrested by the Police, they could force him to give the private key of > > the freesite and blow every nodes... > > I'm sure it can be solved easily ;-D > > Actually, it is impossible to solve this problem. You see, if someone > arrests or kidnaps Ian, and beats the private key out of them, there is > no way for Ian to give out a warning from the prison. As far as the > network is concerned, whoever holds Ians key is Ian, and the real Ian has > no way of telling anyone otherwise, since he is imprisoned and/or dead. > Don't forget that Freenets goals of opposing censorship directly > contradict the interests of every dictatorship on Earth - and, to a lesser > extent, every other government too, since they all can benefit from > keeping things from their citizens or someone else - and dictators tend to > be very nasty people. > > So no, this is not a minor issue; it is a show-stopper. > > > > > > > What do you think about that ? > > Not a good idea for the reasons told above. Might work for early alpha, > but there's always the danger that some code related to this could remain > even in the stable version. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060206/63b8b689/attachment.pgp>
