Sorry, I was rather occupied with other things for a couple of weeks. I will send another weekly status update out on Monday.
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:04:50PM -0300, Caco Patane wrote: > I was out for a few weeks and I want to know what was going on this time. > > Can anybody with up-to-date information provide a report like this? It > was a good idea to have one... at least one per month. > > Saludos, > Caco_Patane <!> > > On 1/30/06, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > WEEKLY STATUS REPORT > > -------------------- > > > > 0. Weekly status report. > > 1. Status of 0.7. > > 2. Public alpha. > > 3. Financial status and credit to volunteers. > > 4. Known serious issues. > > > > 0. Weekly Status Report. > > > > For some time, jrand0m has provided weekly status reports on I2P's > > progress. This is a good idea, so I will provide one. > > > > 1. Status of 0.7 > > > > The 0.5/0.6 network is not being actively maintained, although if we > > become aware of a serious security issue we will fix it. The current > > focus of all effort is the 0.7 network. Mostly the implemented > > functionality seems to work, although there are occasional load issues, > > and load in general is so low that it is not really a valid test. FCPv2 > > has been partially implemented, and thanks to sleon, Frost is now > > working, at least for messages. Fproxy works, but is not very user > > friendly and is insecure. 0.7 is still exclusively a darknet, meaning > > that connections are manually assigned. In practice, on a real darknet, > > this would be on the basis of pre-existing trust relationships; on our > > testnet most links are created randomly or on the basis of the network > > graphs. > > > > Freenet 0.7 remains highly insecure. First and foremost, testnet mode is > > enabled on all nodes, meaning that developers (and enemies!) can log > > into nodes remotely and browse their logs. Secondly, fproxy is insecure; > > it does not do any HTML filtering whatsoever at present. Thirdly, the > > connection setup protocol at present is vulnerable to Man-In-The-Middle > > attacks. The focus at present is on getting the basic client (FCPv2) > > functionality working so that third party devs can implement apps on top > > of it. > > > > 0.7 installation guide: > > http://wiki.freenetproject.org/FreenetAlphatestNodeInstallation > > 0.7 graphs: > > http://freeviz.freenetproject.org/~sleon/ > > > > 2. Public Alpha. > > > > The current intention is to release a public alpha some time next week. > > The main focus is on client functionality for third party developers, > > i.e. FCPv2 - the Freenet Client Protocol, version 2.0. The alpha will > > have a feature-complete (apart from config and diagnostics, and maybe > > some other specialist stuff) implementation of FCPv2. The object is to > > get something out into the world on which third party developers can > > build applications. Sleon has already got Frost working (apart from file > > download/upload) on Freenet 0.7 via FCPv2. The alpha will not be > > especially user friendly, the most obvious thing being that users will > > still need to set up their own connections via IRC or other means. > > > > 3. Financial Status and credit to volunteers. > > > > The project's paypal balance as of 12PM today is $423.81. Normally there > > is no money in the e-gold account and Amazon Honour System accounts, > > presumably because they are less well known than paypal. I do not know > > whether there is money in the bank account. In any case, if the project > > wants to continue my full-time employment on Freenet, I will need to be > > paid soon - in theory next Monday. One objective of the imminent > > development alpha is to get some attention and therefore some cash. If > > you are reading this and want to give the project some money, please > > don't wait until we put the alpha out with a public appeal, give us all > > your money now! :) > > > > There has been an upsurge in volunteer development: Nextgens has mostly > > been doing sysadmin work for us (as well as working on compatibility with > > free JVMs), Sleon has got Frost working and created the code that makes > > the graphs mentioned above, Cyberdo got manifests working (thus enabling > > a useful fproxy), and Tubbie contributed a database-backed datastore > > around Christmas. Thanks to all who have contributed! Thanks also to all > > the people who have run 0.7 testnet nodes, and tested them. Hopefully > > there will be more developers after 0.7 is released. The fact remains > > however that I (Toad) do most of the day to day debugging as well as > > most of the major architectural work (despite his sometimes being lazy, > > which does not impact the project finances as he is paid by the hour). > > > > 3. Known serious issues. > > > > Two issues: > > - 0.7 is grossly insecure (see above). > > - Do NOT under any circumstances use prefetch (apart from "link rel=" > > support in browsers, which is safe) with Fproxy on Freenet 0.5. This > > will go straight through the __CHECKED_HTTP_ web-bug guards, which > > were set up to prevent users from accidentally clicking on potentially > > malicious links from Freenet to the WWW. > > -- > > Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFD3lkuHzsuOmVUoi0RAl17AKCxkNADpN0uGjLL1IHSUJi38ijxtACdFZaY > > 8erh29re1powcrsMsRBVY7M= > > =cdZC > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tech mailing list > > Tech at freenetproject.org > > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > > > > > > > -- > And the void rumbles in > Like an underground train > Forever comes closer > The world is in pain > We all must be shown, we must realise > That everyone changes and everything dies > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GIT dpu s:-- a-- C++ UL+++ P-- L++ E--- W+++ N o-- K- w--- > O---- M V- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP t+ 5-- X+ R+++ tv-- b++ DI-- D++ > G++ e h+ r-- y** > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. 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