On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Vijay K. Gurbani <v...@bell-labs.com> wrote:
> This looks like Pirate Pay is injecting multiple sybils into the > DHT with node-IDs close to the info-hash of the file, thus making > the sybils responsible for the file I haven't looked into how BitTorrent's DHT manages node IDs, so excuse me for lazy-ask-the-listing, but isn't a simple solution to this problem to cryptographically derive node IDs in such a way that makes it difficult to select for a particular ID? One can imagine that a node ID is derived from a public key fingerprint, and to prove ownership of a particular node ID, a node must be able to sign values with the private key whose public key fingerprint is the node ID. -- Tony Arcieri
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