[freenet-dev] How to fix Frost

[Michael Rogers]

Edgar Friendly wrote:
> How to
> choose which puzzles to solve?  Should a new user really be presented
> with a list of 100 check-boxes to pick between?  What information should
> they have to make an informed decision?

The new user could read the boards for a while and decide which users
were likely to be influential: a user whose messages are usually
answered must be visible to a lot of people; solve that user's puzzle to
become visible. Frost could even download the WoT lists and find the
influential users automatically.

New users shouldn't choose a puzzle to solve at random, otherwise a
spammer could use a Sybil/replay attack: for each legitimate identity,
create one or more Sybils with the same puzzle as the legitimate
identity. When a new user solves the puzzle, use the solution to get
onto the legitimate identity's WoT list.

> How to expire an old puzzle and how to publish all this info on puzzles
> / web of trust?  An internal board receiving daily/weekly postings from
> each user on their current WoT and puzzle?

Sounds like a good idea. Or have a KSK for each user, similar to Frost
file sharing.

Cheers,
Michael