On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:11:59PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > 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.
It is primarily a measure to try to prevent the network from forking into islands which don't talk to each other and produce false routing optima. > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ > Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/ -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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