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> The challenge with these schemes is always making them robust against intentional attacks. Right. You join the network by generating a random IPv6 address an
by Animats 2y ago
> The challenge with these schemes is always making them robust against intentional attacks.
Right. You join the network by generating a random IPv6 address and telling someone about it. So anyone can generate vast numbers of dummy node addresses, which everybody has to track. Now you need spam filtering.
- sunshine-o 2y agoYes but from my understanding one should not tell anybody about their IP as it is directly derived from a public key [0]. So in practice if you have doubts that your private key might have been compromised you must change your IP ASAP. So I guess serious Yggdrasil users rely rather on a solid DNS system to manage identities and configure things. They actually need it more than the public internet ! This is the problem the blockchain & Ethereum people bumped into quickly: the 'key = identity' paradigm is elegant but in practice you need an abstraction on top to do anything serious. I see they do have a DNS infrastructure in place [1] but most of the network services point to IP addresses, what really doesn't make sense to me. - [0] https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/privacy.html#network-identity https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/privacy.html#network-ide... - [1] https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/services.html#dns https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/services.html#dns