Sanity's Journal: A draft of a new Freenet article

I have been working on an article describing Freenet's "Next Generation Routing" algorithm. You can find my working draft here - comments appreciated, but remember that it is still a draft so please don't link to it except through my blog.

When complete I will probably submit it to /. among other places to get some wider peer review.

Comment on the NG routing

[menteth]

I may have got hold of the wrong end of the stick, here, but....

"When a new request is received, this information is used to estimate which node is likely to be able to retrieve the data in the least amount of time, and that is the node to which the request is forwarded."

Could this possibly lead to very slow nodes getting no requests at all (in the extreme case) ? If yes, that would be a serious blow to anonymity as an outside observer would be able to tell that data passed to and from such a node would b

Re:Comment on the NG routing

[Sanity]

Could this possibly lead to very slow nodes getting no requests at all (in the extreme case) ? If yes, that would be a serious blow to anonymity as an outside observer would be able to tell that data passed to and from such a node would be based on that node's requests.

Even if a node does have traffic it will probably still be trivial for an observer to know which requests originate at that node (at least statistically) - which is why all traffic is encrypted (at a number of levels).

Nice article, nice /. post

[Pac]

Nicer still to see you can write a proper [kuro5hin.org] MLP when you try. :)

Mr.Clarke, what is your opinion on this model.

[HanzoSan]

I'd like your opinion on the idea I posted here http://slashdot.org/~HanzoSan/journal/ [slashdot.org]

Tell me if you think this idea could work?

(by the way this has nothing to do with Freenet I just need your advice because you are an expert)