Hello all, My name is Gerard Krol, and I've been involved a bit with Freenet in the past (mainly with Freetalk). I usually go by gerard_ or gerard-. I think the ideas behind Freenet are great but in practice it's just too slow. Last year I learned about Cjdns, which aims to have a F2F darknet/meshnet that routes packets. I've got a few minor commits to my name there too. Cjdns actually performs very well at the moment and is highly usable. The only problem is this: the routing is completely broken. It routes packets to the closest address without making/breaking connections and without location swapping. The network is currently so small (300 nodes?) that this does not yet pose a problem though,
I've combined what I think are the good parts of both darknets to design Wanderlust. It basically uses the cryptographic IPv6 addresses of Cjdns with the routing of Freenet in darknet mode. I've also written a document about possible attacks that might be interesting to Freenet, with my solution to the Pitch Black attacks. It's all very early stage, and I don't know yet if this will actually work and how it should be implemented. It could be run over the Freenet network, it could replace the routing in Cjdns or it could be a separate project altogether. The design is located at https://github.com/gerard-/wanderlust Please let me know what you think. Regards, Gerard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20130814/c24b8733/attachment.html>
