[FYI] (Fwd) Uh, that's Gold*berg*...(was re: Freedom Network source code now available)

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  15 February 2002
  Updated: 23:15 GMT
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-- Freedom Network source code now available By Andrew Orlowski in San
Francisco Posted: 15/02/2002 at 22:57 GMT

CodeCon Source code for ZeroKnowledge Systems' discontinued anonymous
Internet service has leaked onto the Web, apparently with the blessing
of ZKS' Chief Scientist Ian Goldman.

The announcement was made on Goldman's behalf at the CodeCon
conference by Len Sassaman, co-organizer of the three day grassroots
P2P and crypto conference .

Until early last October, Freedom Network offered anonymous web
surfing and email with a comprehensive, belt-and-braces approach to
anonymity involving dedicated servers, tricky routing tactics and the
generation of noise traffic. All packets were encrypted. ZKS
discontinued the service but denied that the decision was a
consequence of the post-September 11 hysteria.

"Right now there simply isn't enough market buy-in on the premium
services to justify the network's operating costs....support for the
Freedom network offering was removed from the client code base well
before the recent tragedies of September 11," wrote Goldman.

According to the README, "Zero-Knowledge is releasing this code under
an RSAREF style license, to encourage academic research and other
non-commercial use." Other licenses are respected, and the release is
entirely unsupported.

The main tarballs is a 12.5MB download, PGP encrypted with the
"traditional magic words" (one of which is a big bird). You can find
it hereŽ


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