On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:46:39PM -0500, Tom Kaitchuck wrote: > On Thursday 03 July 2003 01:40 pm, Ian Clarke wrote: > > If my memory serves me correctly, we currently select the first step in > > routing at random as a security measure. > > Forgive my ignorance, but how does this provide security?
Well, I wasn't incredibly happy about the idea when I first heard it - but it does make it more difficult to deduce whether the person you just got a request from was the originator of that request - and it encourages more diverse probing of nodes in the RT. Personally I think we could live without it. Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/
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