[freenet-dev] New approach to tunneling

[Ian Clarke]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Matthew Toseland
<toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Friday 13 June 2008 01:16, Ian Clarke wrote:
>> What are the specific threats that we are currently vulnerable to,
>> that this approach will prevent, and how does it prevent them?

> If the tunnels are short, then it will not result in a large reduction in
> performance, and may enable some significant optimisations which we could not
> implement before for security reasons.

Ok, so the basic concept is that we are creating relays and then
relaying all requests through them, what is the danger if a relay is
an attacker?

I hope you are right that this won't slow things down - but I'm
somewhat pessimistic about that.  Either way, we need to test
carefully, a more secure but unusable Freenet is a waste of time.

Ian.

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