Re: [freenet-dev] MAST Attack

2013-07-24 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Tuesday 23 Jul 2013 19:56:43 Robert Hailey wrote: On 2013/07/23 (Jul), at 11:54 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote: We haven't quantified this. Maybe we should, but it doesn't seem a good use of scarce resources to implement a toolkit for an attack that we're not sure how to beat! At least

[freenet-dev] What to do about darknet names?

2013-07-24 Thread Matthew Toseland
At present once you are connected to a peer, it can change its name. So it can e.g. impersonate your other peers. This is not easily detectable because of character set issues (there are lots of characters that look like o with different unicode code points, for example). IMHO we need to

Re: [freenet-dev] Android Support For Daknet Connections Update #3

2013-07-24 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Wednesday 24 Jul 2013 20:20:57 Nitesh Bharadwaj wrote: Improvements from previous update: 1) Improved and a stable UI for mobile application 2) A dedicated TCP server on a different port on home node instead of using fproxy for handling connection to mobiles (on the lines of

Re: [freenet-dev] What to do about darknet names?

2013-07-24 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Wednesday 24 Jul 2013 22:42:58 Robert Hailey wrote: On 2013/07/24 (Jul), at 3:21 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: At present once you are connected to a peer, it can change its name. So it can e.g. impersonate your other peers. This is not easily detectable because of character set

[freenet-dev] What to do about darknet names?

2013-07-24 Thread Robert Hailey
On 2013/07/24 (Jul), at 3:21 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > At present once you are connected to a peer, it can change its name. So it > can e.g. impersonate your other peers. This is not easily detectable because > of character set issues (there are lots of characters that look like "o" with