On Wednesday 28 July 2010 12:44:42 Michael Rogers wrote: > Sorry if this has already been discussed - I was off the list at the > time the paper was published. > > Researchers at the University of Minnesota carried out an address > harvesting attack on Freenet opennet. They estimate the size of the > opennet at around 2,500 nodes at any time, from a long-term population > of around 11,100. It took a single node 2.5 hours to collect the > addresses of nearly all active opennet nodes.
Evan's figures show dramatically more than that - around 7000 at any time and 15,000+ total. However the attack appears to have been executed around Feb 2009, and it looks like we've had significant growth since then. > > Obviously the concept behind this attack isn't news to anyone here, and > I realise it's not something opennet tries to protect against, but I was > interested to see some empirical figures. > > http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~hopper/mcon-ccs.pdf -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20100728/85392d49/attachment.pgp>
