Is it possible when people add you then a friend request comes to you at Oneswarm (when you log in) and asks if you want to add "Alexia" to your friendlist or not... Wouldnt it be better than just to seek and Pm other all the time... just post your key and wait till you get a friend request from Oneswarm...
Bad or go idea?
Someone?
Bad or god idea? you agree or disagree?
A major security feature of OneSwarm is that only a friend who you have agreed to add is able to know your IP adress. To send such a "Friend request", you would need the IP adress, thus defeating the purpose of OneSwarm. So, in short, bad idea.
Ok thank you happycat for the answer, didnt think that way ^^... can someone tell me how to close this tread?
Happycat: exactly right. Just knowing someones public key doesn't allow you to do anything, not until the other person adds you can get their ip (of course the identity is verified on connection start as well). And if they remove you as a friend you are back to knowing nothing...
I just implemented a thing that is almost as good as friend requests for 0.7, friend invites. Basically you generate a secret invite (a long string of random data). Then you send that to your friend. Your friend can use that data to find your ip:port, and then when your friend connects to you she will send you the secret. You remember which friend you sent which secret and add her public key as a friend (with a nick you decided when creating the invite).
The details are a bit hairy but I think it will be really useful.
One thing that has annoyed me is that when I have a new friend try 1S they must first add my key, then send me their key and then wait for me to wake up (and add the key) before they can connect. By that time they forgot all about 1S... Making it possible for them to connect straight away will be nice.
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