UPLOADING FILES


Just as much fun as retrieving files is being able to contribute files to the freenet community via frost.  Please note that frost is one way to upload files to freenet, but not the only means.  See the freenet website for more information.  In order to upload files, it is recommended that you create your own secure board.  You may wish to announce your board to the frost/freenet community at large via some mechanism like the Invisible IRC Project.  On the other hand, perhaps you wish to share files with only certain select individuals.  You may then create a secure board where you are the owner and give out your Public Key only for that board.  Once you give out your Private Key, others then can publish to your board.  So be selective on whom you give your Private Key to, if anyone at all that is.  But to avoid more confusion, on to another pictorial example:

Add Your Own Board

Let's start by adding a board, just as previously shown in this tutorial.  Select Frost Message System, then click the icon highlighted in yellow to add a board.  Let's call the new board myboard.  Once you have added myboard in the small window text box click OK and my board will be added.  Then with myboard selected, go through the procedure for making the board a secure board:

Making Your Own Board

Select myboard and click the icon highlighted in yellow which will bring up the secure board dialogue again:

Secure Board Dialogue

This time however, after selecting Secure Board, since this is YOUR board, click on the "Generate new keypair" button in that window and both Public key and Private key text boxes will be automatically filled in for you.  Then click OK.  You will now have created a secure board from which you can upload files.  

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