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List:       freenet-dev
Subject:    Re: [Freenet-dev] encryption (was: Implementing your ideas)
From:       Adam Langley <agl () linuxpower ! org>
Date:       2000-04-28 18:40:59
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On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:47:34PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote:

> > Am I missing something, or is this not entirely a client issue with
> > no bearing on the protocol or nodes at all?  Yes, "Storable.Encryption"
> > or something like it is a good way to implement this, and maybe we
> > should recommend that; but the existing nodes do exactly the right
> > thing already, which is nothing.
> 
> Yes, that is true. But we develop clients here too, and even more importantly
> client standards.
> 

What if a client *doesn't* encrypt it? Anyone could upload something nasty
to your server and it wouldn't be encrypted. Kindof defeats the point doesn't
it?

AGL 

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Whenever anyone says, "theoretically," they really mean, "not really."

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