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"I'm slightly concerned that DHTs might be easier to attack..." The key is in the D. Since it is distributed, there's not a single server that can be attacked.
by Zirro 15y ago
"I'm slightly concerned that DHTs might be easier to attack..."
The key is in the D. Since it is distributed, there's not a single server that can be attacked.
- kronusaturn 15y agoThat would be nice, but unfortunately it's not really the case. It's quite difficult to make a secure distributed system that allows anyone to join (as opposed to a closed darknet). Here are a couple examples of attacks that DHT is vulnerable to: http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/101.pdf http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/101.pdf http://www.cs.rice.edu/~twngan/doc/infocom06.pdf http://www.cs.rice.edu/~twngan/doc/infocom06.pdf