Hey Matt, Thanks for updating the FAQ - very good stuff. Can you speak to a comparison of attacks between Freenet and Tor? I'm just starting to get involved with Freenet so if you have a page that already answers this feel free to point me there
Antitree 2009/1/20 Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> > http://freenetproject.org/faq.html#attack > > I have heavily updated the attacks section on the FAQ (after adding a > section > on browsers). We more or less said that Tor provides anonymity and we don't > on it before, which simply isn't true; Tor does not protect against > advanced > (presumably meaning global) traffic analysis, and depending on which > attacks > you take seriously doesn't protect against compromise of the majority of > nodes either, the two examples given. Freenet provides a different kind of > anonymity, and in some cases it is safer than Tor; in some cases Tor is > safer. And it will improve significantly with the tunnels implementation we > will hopefully have in 0.9. > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20090127/d8dba1c7/attachment.html>
