On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:14:36AM -0800, Mr. Bad wrote:
> I don't think someone would make a cancer node to be useful; they
> would make one to be destructive.
Please forgive me if this is a "person who doesn't understand Freenet's
attack on Freenet." I think I understand what's happening well enough to
describe an attack by an apparently "useful" node.
Just set up a bunch of nodes that are the best nodes in the world
for everything except for documents on the Censor List. They'd have
lots of bandwidth, lots of storage, and give you everything you asked
for -- except if you request that one "candid" picture of Hilary
Rosen and Shawn Fanning they just sleep, reduce HTL and return a
Reply.NotFound as if they had made a good effort to search for it.
(Maybe call this kind of node a "rathole" since it's not a black hole
that sucks in everything but a smaller hole that just makes one thing
seem to disappear.) Because rathole nodes would be really good for most
requests, they'd be difficult to tell apart from normal nodes. (or am I
Not Getting Freenet?)
Could a rathole also attract more requests to itself by generating a
bunch of random documents and inserting each one that hashes to a value
close to a document on its censor list?
--
Don Marti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technical Editor, Linux Journal 650-962-9601
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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