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. > > 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)
Anybody can what? I don't follow you. Anybody can DNF on everything after a nice long timeout, sure. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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