On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:16:55PM +0200, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 07:20:15PM +0100, Toad wrote:
> > There is also a trust question. Why should we trust the node that said
> > it had seen the message before?
> You can treat it the same as the node returning DNF (which nodes to which
> you route can do anyway), there will still be more of a bias to routing
> that area of the keyspace to the node that actually specialises in it than
> to other nodes.

Okay, so they'd be "punished" in the estimators - the probability of DNF
for a given key would be updated on the graph?
> 
> Malicious nodes trying to get into everybodies routing table could then
> pretend to never already have seen messages and try to route them on,
> but that 'attack' is already possible, anybody can proxy all incoming
> requests to new requests with a higher HTL in an effort to return data
> in a specific key area (within the bounds of time limits ofcourse)
> 
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