Why Freenet is Complicated (or not)

JohnBE writes "'This article is primarily a friendly rebuttal to Steven Hazel's CodeCon 2002 talk entitled "libfreenet: a case study in horrors incomprehensible to the mind of man, and other secure protocol design mistakes". Hazel presents the Freenet protocol as an overly complicated, self designed crypto layer. In fact, though somewhat complicated, literally every step in the protocol was carefully thought out to resist certain attacks and to increase certain properties desirable for Freenet operators and the network as a whole.' Interesting in light of Peek-a-booty, this article covers many of the issues involved with creating a anonymous P2P system."

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Why Freenet is complicated

[October_30th]

Because it's been written in Java.

How do you expect people to set it up when the majority of people are not familiar with non-standard implementation languages such as Java?

I for one couldn't figure out how to get it to work even though I have been programming in C and C++ for over ten years.

It'll be done when:

[metalhed77]

I'll start using freenet when:

1. Response times are less than 5 seconds
2. Data is retrieved at over 6kb/s
3. A way to search data over freenet is made.