re Improving resistance to transaction origination harvesting

- -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: re [Bitcoin-development] Improving resistance to transaction origination harvesting Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:06:59 +0100 From: Arne Bab. <Arne_Bab@web•de> To: justus.ranvier@monetas•net

Hi Justus,

I read your proposal for a bitcoin darknet (friend-to-friend), but I’m not on that list, so it would be nice if you could relay my message.

Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote:

> Experience with other networks such as Retroshare shows that … in
> practice most people are easily tricked into adding someone as

'friend'

This argumentation does not apply to the friend-to-friend connections in Freenet, though, because in Retroshare you need friends to be connected at all, while in Freenet adding Friends is optional. They were made optional in direct response to seeing people exchange friend-references with strangers.

An important aspect of friend-to-friend connections is that they have to provide additional value for the communication with real-life friends. I had few darknet contacts in Freenet until I started using messages to friends for confidential communication (in which freenet traffic provides a cover for the direct communication with friends).

For details on confidential messaging as additional value see “Let us talk over Freenet, so I can speak freely again”: - - http://draketo.de/english/freenet/connect-speak-freely

And for a description of capabilities freenet builds on top of the friend-to-friend connections, see “Freenet: The forgotten cryptopunk paradise”: - - http://draketo.de/english/freenet/forgotten-cryptopunk-paradise

Best wishes, Arne