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Why Freenet is Complicated (or not)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-think-about dept.

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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  1. Why Freenet is complicated by October_30th · · Score: 0, Troll
    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.

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  2. There are however very few issues by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    in posting anonymous flamebait on slashdot.

  3. i Agree tOtaLly! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It must be written in C# to be safe, and it should use key escrow instead of some public key auth that only permits illegal activities anyway.

  4. Re:parent is TROLL by October_30th · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, right. Everyone who hates Java MUST be a troll.

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  5. It'll be done when: by metalhed77 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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  6. It's hopeless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    C: write once, compile everywhere
    Java: write once, run nowhere