On Friday 28 Dec 2012 13:34:26 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Montag, 24. Dezember 2012, 21:11:55 schrieb Robert Hailey: > > With that being said, the scarce resource (in theory) would be location > > (detectable by network address), because an attacker simulating many nodes > > would likely have them in a very confined space (like a server closet or a > > few buildings here-and-there), and could not spoof a wildly different > > location because it would interfere with routing. > > Except if he just bought some time on one of the million-computer botnets for > doing the attack.
Yes, I'm putting that sort of thing in the "expensive attacks" box. > > But aside that: If we can marry your idea with transport plugins, that might > be an option to create scarcity at least for some transports. Freenet could > then prefer scarce transports over abundant transports - if available. Maybe. Even without rewiring the internet, we have several resources we can use that provide at least some level of scarcity that we can maybe throttle by: - CAPTCHAs - IP addresses - ASN lookup of IP addresses.
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