[Tech] [freenet-dev] Easier reference swapping

[Matthew Toseland]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:58:01AM +0100, Martin Scheffler wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 6. März 2007 00:02 schrieb Matthew Toseland:
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:19:33PM -0500, Colin Davis wrote:
> > > For the record- I still think that reducing the initial connection to
> > > "IP:Port and Password", rather than having to exchange a noderef will
> > > signing your friends up much easier, and make people more likely to
> > > use the darknet ;)
> >
> > Is it so hard to transfer a file? Don't most IM clients (unlike IRC)
> > manage to get through firewalls somehow? Admittedly they have no
> > security...
> 
> I have a problem with that. if big brother reads the email or IM, you 
> disclose more by exchanging full references.

Hence PGP. Or giving somebody a physical CD-ROM.
> 
> The initial connection should be easy to establish (small amount of data), 
> by phone, snail mail or smoke clouds. the point here is that more people 
> feel invited to try it out. where is the threat when you dont 
> push "initiate connection"?

Well, how?
> 
> If the peers agree on that, the IP:port and one-time-password are 
> exchanged. And on inital connecten the noderefs are exchanged.

So you need real-time exchange (presumably by phone) of IP:port in both
directions. That sucks; is it acceptable? Is it close to one of the
proposal mails I sent?
> 
> good byte
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