Comments on: Thoughts about ISPs, privacy and GNUnet

By: stargrave

stargrave — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:02:35 +0000

Do everything you wish. No problems.

By: Polprav

Polprav — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:52:14 +0000

Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post “No teme” in your blog with the link to you?

By: foo

foo — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:06:49 +0000

stargrave:

I didn’t mean to imply that GNUnet didn’t have the features that I
listed. I thought it was obvious that the drawback that makes popular
adoption as an alternative to bittorrent impossible is speed. With that
in mind I listed some small improvements with Bittorrent that would
greatly improve it from a robustness point of view.

Regarding “Commentary about files”: If you go to a torrent tracker
there is normally a “submit comment for this torrent” type of feature
where people are giving feedback about a file, for example, alerting
others if it is a fake, noting if some feature it missing, juding
quality, … etc. In my view this is *the* valuable feature that is
making users gravitate to these indexing sites with their associated
risks (i.e. one site, one point of failure).

By: Markus

Markus — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:41:09 +0000

@deck-harr: Most users are going to download the same files anyway. And are searching for the same keywords. Searches are cached. –> Fast search results.. + You can create a directory lets say “FSF PDF Documents” users only have to store the link to this directory and are always getting the latest files –> No need to search

By: stargrave

stargrave — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:18:21 +0000

Hm… I do not see any problems with mass-sending searches over the network. It is not resource-wasting and only a question of time: maybe GNUnet eats too much network bandwidth and CPU, but after a year or too – it will be too cheap.

By: stargrave

stargrave — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:14:59 +0000

GNUnet is decentralized. AFAIK it uses DHT too. Searches are decentralized too. Commentary about files – do you mean some informatic meta-data for them? It is supported too. DHT is not a protocol/standard part of BitTorrent unfortunately.

By: Deck-Harr

Deck-Harr — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:09:28 +0000

GNUnet doesn’t scale! So guys – seriously – don’t use it or it will slow down!
http://en.open-bash.org/index.php?id=21&session=0&no=80

By: foo

foo — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:08:09 +0000

A solution that would be much more readily adopted is to decentralize
and de-hierachalize. DHT already does that for the tracker. What is
left is to decentralize search and, more importantly, “rating”. The
first of these was solved long ago by other P2P systems. Why it was
abandoned in bittorrent is baffling. The second is the slightly more
difficult one: We need a decentralized, spam-resistant way of rating
files and provide commentary about them. Bitzi did this poorly in a
non-decentralized way. I think the absence of such a system is the
real barrier to “true” decentralized P2P.

Of course this does not solve the anonymity problem — an important
problem, to be sure. But it does deal with the particular threat model
that motivated your example.

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