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