[freenet-dev] alternative to #freenet-refs

[Michael Rogers]

Florent Daignière wrote:
> We haven't implemented an anonymous connection protocol. JFK assumes
> that there is a certificate chain or something we could use to verify
> who we are talking to... In our case it's the crypto. parameters we have
> in noderefs: We need them on darknet.

Exactly - the parameters are exchanged during JFK. The ref only needs to
contain the hash of the parameters so that we can verify them.

That means the ref can be around 38 bytes (IP address + port + hash) -
small enough to exchange over the phone, IRC, etc.

Cheers,
Michael