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Is there where a third party node can spoof (or lie about) the content belonging to a pin to clients that ask it?
by Xeoncross 9y ago
Is there where a third party node can spoof (or lie about) the content belonging to a pin to clients that ask it?
- Crespyl 9y agoSince IPFS is based on content addressing, if a node tries to spoof a piece of content, any peers trying to fetch from the malicious node will immediately see that the content provided does not match the desired hash. I'm not sure how peers handle that situation, I'd assume it'd be treated like wire corruption (retry) or give up and try to fetch from a different peer.
- cobookman 9y agoBut that doesn't stop ddos attacks.
- brokenmachine 9y agoTrue, but a ddos also doesn't exactly mean the content is "exploitable". I presume future clients would block nodes that share false content (if clients don't already).
- lgierth 9y agoPins are something that's per-node, and whether a node has a specific piece of content pinned is not visible publicly (only that it's providing the content).