Uh, that's Gold*berg*...(was re: Freedom Network source code now available)

R. A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Fri Feb 15 20:56:12 EST 2002


http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/24094.html

  15 February 2002
  Updated: 23:15 GMT
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Freedom Network source code now available
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 15/02/2002 at 22:57 GMT

CodeCon Source code for ZeroKnowledge Systems' discontinued anonymous
Internet service has leaked onto the Web, apparently with the blessing of
ZKS' Chief Scientist Ian Goldman.

The announcement was made on Goldman's behalf at the CodeCon conference by
Len Sassaman, co-organizer of the three day grassroots P2P and crypto
conference .

Until early last October, Freedom Network offered anonymous web surfing and
email with a comprehensive, belt-and-braces approach to anonymity involving
dedicated servers, tricky routing tactics and the generation of noise
traffic. All packets were encrypted. ZKS discontinued the service but
denied that the decision was a consequence of the post-September 11
hysteria.

"Right now there simply isn't enough market buy-in on the premium services
to justify the network's operating costs....support for the Freedom network
offering was removed from the client code base well before the recent
tragedies of September 11," wrote Goldman.

According to the README, "Zero-Knowledge is releasing this code under an
RSAREF style license, to encourage academic research and other
non-commercial use." Other licenses are respected, and the release is
entirely unsupported.

The main tarballs is a 12.5MB download, PGP encrypted with the "traditional
magic words" (one of which is a big bird). You can find it here®


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