On July 3, 2003 03:11 pm, 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?
It means a node cannot set itself up to alway respond yes and hense become the one place that gets requests... > 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. I am not so sure about that. Think the bonus is that we query more nodes allowing us to actually learn about the network. Suspect, without this, routing would find a couple of nodes that work OK and route all messages to them. In any case, once the complete NG alg is working, its very easy to test. Ed _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
