[freehaven-cvs] put the major freehaven flaws on the frontpage

[arma@seul.org (Roger Dingledine)]

Update of /home/freehaven/cvsroot/public_html/src
In directory moria.mit.edu:/home/arma/work/freehaven/public_html/src

Modified Files:
	home.thtml 
Log Message:
put the major freehaven flaws on the frontpage


Index: home.thtml
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RCS file: /home/freehaven/cvsroot/public_html/src/home.thtml,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -d -r1.4 -r1.5
--- home.thtml	1 Mar 2001 22:37:11 -0000	1.4
+++ home.thtml	4 Apr 2003 04:29:44 -0000	1.5
@@ -32,7 +32,30 @@
 <p> The Free Haven project began in December 1999 as a research
 project initially comprised of several <a
 href="http://www.mit.edu/";>MIT</a> students to design, implement, and
-deploy a functional data haven.  </p>
+deploy a functional data haven. We've put it on the back
+burner for now because it still has three main unsolved
+problems before it can be robust enough: </p>
+
+<ul>
+<li> The reputation system is tricky and won't work. We need to
+replace the gossip/credibility system with a mechanism for verifiable
+transactions.  See <a href="http://freehaven.net/doc/econp2p03/";>this
+draft paper</a> for more details.
+
+<li> Retrieval is currently broadcast, which is too inefficient. We're
+letting other projects work on solutions here, and we'll pick our
+favorite when the time comes. Notably, it would be nice to base an
+addressing scheme on consistent hashing, so it's easy to know which
+node is currently hosting a piece of data, but hard to find the actual
+location of that node.
+
+<li> There is no anonymous communications infrastructure. This is the
+area we're focusing on currently. See <a href="http://mixminion.net/";>the
+Mixminion page</a> for our current work in that direction. I'm also
+working on <a href="http://freehaven.net/tor/cvs/doc/";>Onion Routing</a>
+(tcp-level anonymous communications rather than message-based), which
+will provide weaker anonymity but lower latency.
 
 </ul>
 
+</ul>

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