On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:26:17PM +0100, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > and the widespread use of God aweful network > flooding applications like "Frost"
Ooh, that is a harsh way to treat Freenet's first real client application. I like to think of Frost as a way to motivate us to harden Freenet against DDOS attacks ;-) Of course, I will be much more impressed by frost when they implement think-cash</flamebait> ;-) > Beyond this lies the use of real load balancing in the protocol by > having nodes weigh the probability of reseting the DataSource against > their relative load on the network - but I think we can leave that for > another day. Yeah, that sounds easily initially, but may not be. It would require nodes to somehow decide whether they are above or below average, which would require trusting information given by other nodes in the network, a mechanism that could be exploited for an attack. Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian at freenetproject.org Founder & Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Chief Technology Officer, Uprizer Inc. http://www.uprizer.com/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20020107/6a604bab/attachment.pgp>
