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------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 20:56:12 -0500 To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>, dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@wasabisystems.com, mac-crypto@vmeng.com From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: Uh, that's Gold*berg*...(was re: Freedom Network source code now available)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/24094.html
15 February 2002 Updated: 23:15 GMT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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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