On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 03:21:20PM +0100, Loic Dachary <l...@dachary.org> wrote a message of 100 lines which said:
> Another approach may be that the application (Seeks) support the > creation of closed DHT. Each node would need to obtain credentials > from a trusted authority before joining a designated ring. As far as I know, all the current security solutions for P2P networks use a variant of this system: peers are no longer equal and some have more weight than others, for instance to control enrollment. Then, the problem becomes tractable. (I even suspect it is impossible to find a pure P2P secure solution, where all peers would stay equal. It is just a personal suspicion not, it seems, a scientifically proven result.) Technically, it will work but it will be a big PR problem for the projects who claim, not only to deliver a working technical solution, but also to solve political problems with P2P (IDONS, a P2P DNS <http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000787.html>: "Fully distributed - No centralized control"). > The simplest setup could be a central server delivering > certificates. But wouldn't it bring back to Seeks exactly the problems of centralized search engines, it tried to avoid? _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
