Yenta is still under active development, but this particular page is not. If you're interested in current research papers about Yenta, or obtaining a copy of Yenta, please start here instead. This page is one of many that were written in late 1994 and early 1995, and are being preserved here for historical purposes. If you're viewing this page, you probably found it via an old link or are interested in the history of how Yenta came to be. These pages have not been actively maintained since 1995, so you'll find all sorts of older descriptions which may not match the current system, citations to old papers and old results, and so forth. |
Given that such communication is happening as a regular part of how Yenta functions, and given that users will almost always manipulate any existing system into an explicit communications channel, Yenta will explicitly support such communication. Users can send messages into whatever clusters their agents are a part of, and have the option of signing them (probably with cryptographic surety) or leaving them anonymous. Similarly, users will have options as to whether to receive such communications from other users, by specifying (in decreasing order of security) whether communications from signed, unsigned, or anonymous users are to be processed and displayed. (By refusing even cryptographically signed messages, a user may pretend that any user-generated intracluster traffic---as opposed to suggestions from peer-to-peer communications amongst the agents---does not exist.)
Lenny Foner Last modified: Tue Dec 13 21:56:51 1994