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
