Hello everyone I announced a half year ago that I write a master thesis over possible sibyl attacks on freenet. I don't want to spam the devl list because the info of the paper is already known, however not in these clear detail. So I post it here on the technical list, since the information of the paper won't help much in developing.
The paper gives some theoretical background of how safe you might or might not be in freenet, however the network topology is very very simplified throughout the paper to make it possible to analyze it theoretically. For those who won't believe that darknet and trusted peers are a necessity the paper will open your eyes. Freenet 0.5 and Opennet are wide open to attacks described in the paper. A small step for freenet a big step for me, I finally have some spare time :) Anyone interested can read the paper here, its quite mathematical, but I hope easy to read to any Undergraduate CS Student. http://download.apophis.ch/paper/MA.pdf cheers Thomas Bruderer aka. Apophis
