On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 05:48:44PM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> Can it be solved at all, without knowing the public keys of all nodes > >> (which would essentially turn Freenet into I2P)? How can you ever be > >> sure that your insert really reached the node responsible for location > >> 0.123456789? > > > > You ask another node to fetch the data. Is that a problem? > > It depends on the probability of your request passing through the same > node that faked the insert, which can just return the data as if it had > inserted it. Random audits *might* work, but as usual I'd like to see > some simulations first. ;-)
So you have a flag to have it ignore the first few hops or something? > > > RequestSucceeded? For a simple request they'd have to return DNF, RNF, > > or the actual data. > > Sorry, I'm talking about a request to insert data - am I using the wrong > terminology? People sometimes seem to use request to mean a request for > data, and sometimes it means a request to either insert or retrieve data. Ah ok. That's InsertReply. > > What I mean is that when you ask a peer to insert some data, it could > claim to have done so without doing so. Obviously requests for data are > verifiable. > > > Well, I don't think Ian will let me implement shared folders, you'll > > need to find somebody else to do it. > > I'll happily work on it once the SoC work is finished. :) That'll be a while. > > > Oh and your friends and family will never use freenet, they'll be put > > off by all the (child, and not britney) porn. > > There's no child porn in my blog... in fact if you could keep a straight > face for long enough you could probably sell darknets as the ultimate > walled garden: "it's like an internet where you can't talk to strangers > (well OK you can, but the latency's horrible)". ;-) LOL. Actually I have some serious ideas about that, (collaborative self censorship over darknet) which were documented on the old wiki, but it got lost, and when I talked about them people got really mad. :) I've moved on a bit with them since the thread on tech. > > Cheers, > Michael -- 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/20060711/398ae3fe/attachment.pgp>
