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Defeating Vanish with Low-Cost Sybil Attacks Against Large DHTs
- sweis 17y agoFrom the abstract: "Researchers at the University of Washington recently proposed Vanish, a system for creating messages that automatically “self-destruct” after a period of time. ... In this paper, we defeat the deployed Vanish implementation, explain how the original paper’s security analysis is flawed, and draw lessons for future system designs."
- swolchok 17y agoPrevious HN coverage of Vanish at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=762631 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=762631 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=717736 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=717736 Not much discussion, unfortunately. There's also a blog post at http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ that tells the story in a narrative format.