On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Anonymous wrote:

One leverage point for possibly encouraging this to happen is in P2P, methinks. A few power-users have been prosecuted recently, so imagine a nice little crypto-tunnel (and mp3 disc-encryptor) app that could easily be injected into the Kazaa or other Gnutella-centric browsers.

There's no point in trying to fix braindamaged designs by incremental patchwork. You know about <http://zgp.org/pipermail/p2p-hackers/>, right?

The nice thing here is that if we could get a functioning app, the app itself could be shared and spread variola-like via the P2P networks themselves.

If the users didn't consent to auto-upgrade, you could as well write a worm with p2p node functionality. God knows some people in China could have used some plausible deniability.

There's the technical difficulty that someone pointed out here that the IP address of both serv-ants is visible. One possible go-around is

Well, duh.

to have an encrypted tunnel materialize through blacknet, but I strongly doubt this will scale to millions of users very well.

Instead of doubting, try creating a model that might work, and test drive it in the simulator with millions of nodes.

Another possibility includes allowing the user to make only a portion of their content visible to any single user (plus crypto of course), the logic being that 'they' won't come after the millions of regular file sharers.

The point is to not make content linkable to a specific node.

Any thoughts? If we could develop such an app and roll it over into the file-sharing networks, then the amount of encrypted files being moved around could increase tremendously. ANd then, us law-abiding,

Instead of inventing a polygonal wheel, try joining any of the many efforts like MNet and Freenet, and start hacking.

flag-saluting supporters of even this governments' insistence on world destabilisation will feel safer in using crypto on a daily basis, because crypto will no longer be the sole provence of cranks, kooks, and libertarians.