On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, [iso-8859-1] Some Guy wrote:

> I admit it's just conjecture I have no proof it would happen.  I was
> just thinking "hey why might the routing work in a simulation, but not
> work in real life."

This usually occurs because either (a) the model behind the simulation is
incorrect or (b) the software actually deployed differs from the software
being simulated.

>                     That was back in August, I think before NGR.

> You argue on the website that if two adversarial nodes post and
> request junk data to DoSA the system, they will wind up being close to
> each other in the network.  If that's true it seems logical that
> people with the same "taste" would wind up near each other too.

I think that the assumption here is that those making the DOS attack are
deliberately sending data that clusters hash-wise.  Presumably a variety
of dog- or cat-related articles would be evenly distributed, hash-wise.

> I have no proof it would happen.  It seems like it shouldn't happen if
> NGR is working well, but it also seems like if it were happening NGR,
> wouldn't work.

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