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  • From: Oskar Sandberg <oskar AT freenetproject.org>
  • To: Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems <bluesky AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Grapevine Technical Overview
  • Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 21:12:45 +0200


On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 08:11:48PM +0200, melc AT fashionvictims.com wrote:
> I've been thinking about the design of anonymous/censorship-resistant file
> storage systems (like grapevine) and it seems to me that there is a
> problem with this kind of plausible deniability.

Yes, you are right. Regimes could easily publish blacklists of key
values nodes are not allowed to handle requests for - and implementing
the functionality to censor data based on those lists would be left to
(read: forced on) the node operator.

However, they are really more likely to simply outlaw systems like this
all together. The whole plausible deniability thing is a joke, it's like
claiming you are innocent because you closed your eyes while firing a
machine gun in a crowd (or in this case, more like claiming you are
innocent of thought crime because you closed your eyes while speaking
banned words...)

<>
> Is there a way to foil this kind of attack?

Keep the very existence of the nodes private. That is easier said then
done.


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Oskar Sandberg
oskar AT freenetproject.org




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