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

[coderman]

On 11/29/05, zooko at zooko.com <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
>
> It's a shame that the distinct concepts of "friend-to-friend net" [1] and
> "blacknet" [2, 3, 4, 5] are being munged together in the media under the rubric
> "darknet".

it would be nice to have an index of attributes and consequences of
these networks.  for example:

who do you trust?
- friends
- associates
- third parties
- no one
[reputation is hard]

how do you identify?
- password / phrase
- hardware token
- biometric
[perhaps all of the above *grin*]

how do you key?
- public key / WoT
- certificate authortity (PKI)
- manual key distribution out of band
- revocation and auditing

how do you secure?
- network traffic
- applications and processes
- hosts and operating systems
- key storage
- physical security

even SSL/SSH/IKE get r00ted now and then and strong security at all
these levels is incredibly difficult.

these are the main differences i find interesting in all of the
approaches.  the rest is just throwing bits around. :P