On Monday 30 January 2006 15:15, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 09:40:43AM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > > It also useful in a darknet if you are willing to let your node become a > > little > > gray. If two nodes find each other credible and the both need more > > connections > > (what is the optimal number of connections for a 0.7 node?) they could > > decide > > to swap connection info... It would be interesting to see what simulations > > say > > would happen with this both with all node trustable and with a few that lie. > > Sounds dangerous... on opennet, we open connections on the basis of the > trust resulting from a successful fetch...
It is a little dangerous but, I think, less so than a full opennet connection. If two nodes both find the other credible then this is not that dangerous. If it is then our check is not paranoid enough. Note that if the last point I made on tracking the overall status of a node when determining trust is implemented then its much safer that the check done for opennet (eg. several trusted nodes say that the other node is performing within normal bounds) - which is the point and why I used the word grey. Ed Tomlinson
