> How many nodes ultimately control a given torrent?
Clients are supposed to announce to a full bucket - the bucketsize in
BitTorrents DHT is 8.
> I wonder if the startup might be using some sort of cloud
> SHA1/public-key cracking service to come up with node IDs or even fake
> torrent files. Sounds fun!
Why would they need to do this? Nodes are free to choose their own node_id,
there is no need to brute force anything.
The only 'problem' for an evil peer would be that kademlia favours old nodes
over new ones, but you can get around this by placing yourself in an empty
bucket.
(However: Peers could dectect suspect buckets easily)
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