Anyone Remember Zero Knowledge Systems?

Damian Gerow dgerow at afflictions.org
Wed Sep 10 13:48:17 EDT 2003


Thus spake R. A. Hettinga (rah at shipwright.com) [10/09/03 11:51]:
> Imagine a world where your file swapping software also included a
> Freedom-like client that routed your request through a maze of encrypting
> routers. The routers themselves could be placed in different countries.
> This could make for big headaches when the RIAA moves to subpoena logs of
> file swapper's activities. They couldn't get the logs from the ISPs
> because there's no way the ISP could peek in the traffic stream to
> identify offending content. They could try to put a sniffer on a US-based
> encrypting network node, but there's likely little information that could
> be gathered from this; the "payload" of a packet is encrypted with a key
> that the intermediate routers don't know. 

Sounds like Freenet:

    <http://freenetproject.org/>

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