>> Thoughts ? Opinions ?

> I've looked at this before, and I like the idea of it.

Same here

> The problem I see though, is that we will need to maintain a
> registration system - as I think it would be trivial for a spammer to
> pollute anything that is open.  They control hundreds of thousands of
> computers.  They could easily inject scoring info via these zombies to
> manipulate the data - no matter how averaged it might be.

Yes; that's actually one of the weak points... or better said; it's ok
to
use that approach as long a you trust the other peers, but applying
them to "whatever host out there" at the moment is crazy... although...
aren't we exposed to a similar risk when we update the griplist ?!?

Also, set aside for a minute the "whitelist" idea and focus on the
general
approach; I think it may be valid for other types of infos we may need
to
distribute through various running instances of ASSP; it may even be a
good approach to distribute the greylist to a bunch of different ASSPs
(now we use the database, tomorrow it may be a P2P approach :-D)
and not just that; let's go back to the whitelist idea; there may be a
hub
(e.g. the ASSP site) from which the various "peers" may fetch a list of
trustable hosts which they may use to *fetch* the whitelist infos (I'm
thinking to the idea of a "central-directory" used e.g. by TOR)



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