Dear Isaac,
the protections against Sybil attacks are mostly the friend-to-friend
mode (sybil nodes cannot get connections without social engineering) and
the mitigation against the pitch black attack.
Also, I do not know of any currently employed protections against Sybil
attacks on Hyphanet. If there are any, these may significantly increase the
cost of executing one.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 10:31 AM Isaac W
wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> It seems that the cost of launching a
To whom it may concern,
It seems that the cost of launching a successful Sybil attack on Hyphanet
is alarmingly low. I am wondering if it would be helpful to launch bug
bounties and fixes to address this issue.
Unfortunately, white hat hacking a P2P network is difficult as it is
practically
