Am 30.06.2011 20:09, schrieb Matthew Toseland: > http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/index.html > > Can we learn anything useful from this?
i tested the software "RetroShare" a few months ago and forgot to finish *this* email. it is an anonymizing network like freenet, but has no opennet-mode. it mainly works with tunnels instead of distributed data storage. one exception is the included distributed hash-table. it is used to store connection-information and offline-messages. The retroshare network looks really usefull, but the security is not as good as freenet in my opinion. How it works: People connect to each other using their existing or newly created gnupg-keys. while connecting, they sign the gnupg-keys of their friends. With that, they build their web of trust. People can create boards similar to freetalk: All boards are visible to all. Boards can be created in two ways: - Allow Anonymous messages - Allow Signed messages only They say, that signed messages are good to prevent spam. But i can see no way to block spammers. retroshare does not distinguish trust in two levels like freenet: network layer and "user layer" (like freetalk/wot). if you are "in" the network, then you can spam, because you are trusted. Retroshare allows you to share an entire filesystem-directory to the network. you don't need to "insert" the files. you just share them and other can find it with the file search engine. i doubt that is is spam resistant. can we learn something from this project? personally, i don't think so.
