[p2p-hackers] In search of the Darknet....

[Michael Rogers]

Duncan B. Cragg wrote:

> The point, though, was what Freenet is up to, and here we seem to have
> both: we definitely have an overlay network topology optimisation (nodes
> around the ring swapping position), but we also seem to have an F2F
> aspect, with a reference to out-of-band friendly connections.

I don't think Freenet is optimising the topology, strictly speaking, 
because no links are added or removed. What it's doing is arranging the 
nodes in the identifier space so that greedy routing is possible over 
the given topology.

> It doesn't explain what 'long' or 'short' connections mean in the F2F 
> context.

Again, this refers to the identifier space - the length of a link is the 
arithmetic distance between the identifiers of its endpoints (as in Chord).

Cheers,
Michael