On Tuesday 22 July 2008 22:38, Michael Rogers wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > Should we enable FOAF routing anyway, and if so, which mitigation measures do > > we need to implement first? Note that encrypted tunnels would not solve this > > problem, as they are impacted by it also (if we do rendezvous at a key, and > > use FOAF-routing; random walk rendezvous wouldn't be affected). > > I'm not sure that limiting the traffic per peer will solve the problem. > On opennet an attacker can create any number of Sybils and/or bombard > nodes with connection requests until most of their peers are > attacker-controlled. I don't know of any solutions to the Sybil attack > that are applicable to opennet. Perhaps we just need to accept that > opennet will never be fully secure?
Why/how is this exacerbated by FOAF-routing exactly? If it isn't then it's orthogonal. > > Cheers, > Michael
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