On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 16:55, Robert Shimmin wrote:

> No, because nodes are free to alter HTL arbitrarily.  This is one of the
> strengths of freenet. 

sure, i understand. but i guess that actually nobody modifies the HTL as
such pratice may allow infinite-time-long searches if the document is
not found! 

> Since it's impossible to prevent hostile nodes from
> messing with HTL, freenet doesn't call this an attack.  Instead, it
> documents it as a permissible part of the protocol, making proofs of
> identity much more difficult.

well, my reviewed question is: is that true that if your node recieve a
[MAX_HTL] request it can be reasonably (80% or more) sure that the
neightbour is the initial requester? 

Thanks again,

Davide Venturelli


_______________________________________________
Tech mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech

Reply via email to