On Friday 01 September 2006 19:14, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > * Ed Tomlinson <edt at aei.ca> [2006-09-01 18:56:55]: > > > On Friday 01 September 2006 09:59, Dave Baker wrote: > > > On Friday 01 September 2006 12:45, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > [snip.] > > > > > > > > > An algorythm like this would let a node build a connection to freenet > > > > with > > > just one reference. Its > > > > simple enough to put a message on the webpage telling a newbie that his > > > > node > > > is still integrating > > > > itself into the network and that slower performance should be expected. > > > > It > > > would also mean that > > > > existing node owners do not have to go ref fishing (irc freenet-ref > > > > etc) > > > every couple of weeks. I > > > > suspect it would end up producing a darknet that is considerabliy > > > > darker > > > than the current one. > > > > It would also reduce the urgency (and maybe the requirement) for > > > > opennet. > > > > > > Surely what you've just described *is* opennet? At least a form of it. > > > It's > > > still vulnerable to harvesting. I also don't understand the correllation > > > > You can harvest darknet too - just watch swap messages... > > No you can't : the best you can do is to monitor locations, wich is far > from beeing a proper harvesting... Moreover you are only seeying "local" > swaps.
Right Thanks Ed
