status of various projects?

Gabriel Rocha gabe at seul.org
Thu Aug 15 14:10:24 PDT 2002


		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 at seul.org Thu Aug 15 16:46:59 2002
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:46:59 -0400
From: Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu>
To: gabe at 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





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