[freenet-chat] Freenet 0,5 or 0,7

[Matthew Toseland]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:24:56AM +0200, Lars Juel Nielsen wrote:
> On 8/30/06, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:43:07PM +0200, - wrote:
> >>
> >> You stated that you believe computer based attacks on Freenet are much
> >> easier than social engineering, and therefore support the fact that 
> >freenet
> >> should be an invite only network.
> >>
> >> But, I don't think this model's going to work, for several reasons:
> >>
> >> First, the guiding principle behind freenet right now is anonymity in the
> >> numbers of a large number of users doing all sorts of different things. 
> >They
> >> may easily know you're using freenet, but it's extremely difficult to 
> >prove
> >> WHAT you downloaded. In other word it's very difficult to get specific
> >> evidence against a specific freenet user.
> >
> >It's not *that* difficult. There are correlation attacks, and there is
> >the whole caching issue - either your peers can tell what you've
> >requested for sure (don't cache locally), or your peers *and* anyone who
> >seizes your store can tell (cache locally).
> 
> How about a theird option? For each chunk of data randomly select one
> of the two other options.

Wouldn't help much.
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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