Valerio Schiavoni wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Loic Dachary <l...@dachary.org > <mailto:l...@dachary.org>> wrote: > > > I will reveal my ignorance: what is an "adversary model" ? > > > Simply define what a malicious user could potentially do to break your > system. > Sniffing packets/blocking packets/subverting routing/message-bombing > the network/...the list can be as long as you want. > I get it now, thanks. > > A user finds the answer to question Q by sending a request to the DHT > node responsible for Q (the question Q is hashed into a DHT key). A > malicious node may try to impersonate the node responsible for Q and > return an answer that is irrelevant. > > > Maybe you should look into sybil-attack resilient DHTs. It looks like the original suggestion of Ludovic Courtès to watch the https://gnunet.org/ GUADEC presentation was relevant. My understanding is that it focuses (maybe not exclusively) on techniques to resist to Sybil attacks.
Thank you all for these hints. I will keep going in the direction you showed. I hope to report the results of my efforst on this list, eventually. Cheers
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