On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:40:18AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > If my memory serves me correctly, we currently select the first step in > routing at random as a security measure. > > Translating this over to NGrouting, I suggest that for the first hop in > a request, instead of using the RTE to estimate the per-key request time > estimate, we use a random number between the minimum and maximum points > in the RTE for that node. > > This introduces randomness into the first step - but without ignoring > other issues such as connection failures, QRs, and DNF liklihoods.
Could you elaborate slightly here? Can't we simply route to a random key, like we do now? That should take into account QRs, connection failures and so on. > > 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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