On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:51:16AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > I like the decentral model. But I wonder about how to affirmatively > deny an influx of attacking nodes overtaking the network. It surely > cannot be relegated to the simple user? So that seems 'hard' to me.
You need each node reputation stored in a global distributed tamper-proof publishing system, obtained and acted upon by global quorum. This is not easy, but Bitcoin and Tahoe LAFS show how to build a more trusted network from untrusted components. > For example, I think Tor may remain centralish rather than pure > dhtish for that purpose. But what if the centrality was undertaken If you want to scale to millions if not billions of nodes, what are your options? > anonymously by some voting humans (or their analytic nodes). Their track > recourd could certainly be public yet anonymous therein. You would > at that point be trusting/subscribing their record, purely, as opposed to > dht or some other means, purely. What would p2p-hackers@ have to > say on this?
