On Wed, Aug 14, at 10:58AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: | It seems like a lot of interesting projects haven't been active for a | while - notably Free Haven and Eternity Usenet. Where is the most active | work, these days, on distributed publishing systems? I forwarded this to Roger Dingledine who heads up the FreeHaven project. His answer is below.
From arma@seul.org Thu Aug 15 16:46:59 2002 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:46:59 -0400 From: Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu> To: gabe@seul.org Subject: free haven status
At this point, Free Haven has 3 major flaws, and I'm putting it on the back burner while I address them: * The reputation system is tricky and won't work. We need to replace the gossip/credibility system with a mechanism for verifiable transactions. See http://freehaven.net/doc/cfp02/cfp02.html for more details. * Retrieval is currently broadcast, which is insane. I'm letting other projects work on solutions here (eg Chord), and I'll pick my favorite when the time comes. * There is no anonymous communications infrastructure. This is the area we're focusing on currently. See http://mixminion.net/minion-design.pdf and http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/tarzan/ --Roger