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This looks interesting. I don't know enough about networking to make an informed comment. It looks like a distributed, self-healing alternative to DNS. But it s
by christophilus 10y ago
This looks interesting. I don't know enough about networking to make an informed comment. It looks like a distributed, self-healing alternative to DNS. But it seems like it would run into the same problem that most P2P systems have, right? If enough malicious nodes hop on the network, wouldn't they be able to direct traffic wherever they wanted?
- ycmbntrthrwaway 10y agoJust for reference, it is called pseudospoofing or, using a recent buzzword, Sybil attack. I think this problem is orthogonal to actual P2P protocols. It is rare that such protection is deeply integrated into the protocol itself, the most popular one is probably a GNUnet with its economic system. On the other hand, solution from Tor with its directory services and FreeNet with F2F mode can be adopted by any P2P network.