Matthew Toseland wrote: > Sounds centralised, and not very freenet-ish. Note that if an ISP had a court > order, they'd just wait for it to rotate, and then track it.
The Server/Client model is what has made the internet and the basis of 99% of the workings of the internet. A single IRC Server running 20,000 channels and serving 2 million users is impractical under the freenet model. A centralized server becomes then the target of any action. This is de-centralizing that model, using the bundled application concept to give an ICQ type tool to the general public that gives the user a true anonymous private and secured chat function. The return being able to utilize them as an IP Bounce Relay and run an applet. What applets they could possible run would depend on bandwidth and resource availability and permissions. To eliminate anyones ability to trace what is needed is one of two things. Either a variable burst which is what the PGP Remailers do store incoming messages a variable time to prevent knowing when or if a message was relayed and sending multiples out at the same time. Or a continuous flow of identical information making it impossible to determine which of the packets is meaning full. In terms of The Powers That Be(TPTB) with either of these options they are limited in what information can be gained. An ISP or TPTB watching a mini node working in this roll would not see a change in anything at the location in terms of traffic flow or even a packet change other than the connections made changing. A true anonymous secure private chat utility if it is taken on by the general public to become the norm would then bring in 60+ million users. With respect to the previous post if there is 10 Million Users in the file swap crowd migrating to this it results in a 6 to 1 ratio in additional bandwith and HOP Points. Mini Servers that the Chat Crowd would be able to bring services into the freenet functioning in an encrypted fashion would be as some ideas: Small Chat Room: 6 or 8 depending on bandwith want more you chain two together but you become the relay and not the mini server as to not swamp someone donating to this; Confernce call style. You would never be able to get the 5,000 user rooms that irc had but 25 by chaining 4 maybe possible. MINI DNS Server: they could serve as a miniture DNS Server for the freenet Virtual Router: Interactive Content Feed: A varriation on an RSS type server. File List Distribution. .................................................. With regard to the post on the file system having a hard coded category system in the actual protocol. The best explanation of the idea is the hard coded flags a hard drive has hidden,system,archive, read only. There will be abuse of this I am sure, but the idea does bring structure and it has to be implemented at the very core level to be used and remain being used. Further thinking on the concept of two category flags for the bit it may be better to expand it to a 3 byte flag setting and increase each section by a bit from 16 to 32 choices. The other is each section in the 2 choices needs to be independent of the other and not rely on the first choice. Rather than the system seeking out the entire files list, based on either of the 2 catagory settings a user would be requesting the return of one of 16X2-32 lists or 32X2-64 list. A file being added would then appear twice, once in each category list. The retrieval of files would be based on what you are seeking if you are looking for a video file them MP3 List and Books is essentially wasted bandwidth. The Enqued File List Download in Frost 1500 some days and can take the day to finish would be a nightmare with 10 Million users coming into this, 380days left to complete type of a setting. .................................................. Hash Key form of retrieval would allow resuming and such of files partially down from any number of sources and things like http://bitzi.com/search/ have the hash data on some 2.7 Million Files SHA1, TigerTree, ED2K, KZHASH hash's are all present and I would suggest where possible freenet should emply all 4 along with the MHD5 hash and also a freenet hash system
