[p2p-hackers] darknet ~= (blacknet, f2f net)

[Michael Rogers]

zooko at zooko.com wrote:
> The word "darknet" was coined, as far as I know, by Biddle, England, Peinado,
> Willman [6].  Last time I read their paper, it appeared to me to describe a
> system like Tim May's Blacknet -- an anonymous, secure, decentralized network
> which is used to transfer information illegally.  It didn't mention anything
> about using friend-to-friend techniques to build such a network.

You can't see it in the HTML version, but the caption to figure 3 
appears (to me) to describe something like a friend-to-friend network:

http://www.geocities.com/mirrormedia2/p2p/darknet5.pdf

I agree with your suggested blacknet/darknet/f2f terminology though.

Cheers,
Michael