-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/25/2013 09:04 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:
> If we want something robust, we have to forgo the mathematical > elegance of the DHT, and adopt a network structure in which nodes > only connect to peers that they trust. You could call that > "networks of friends." That removes the It sounds like you're describing the F2F structure underlying the Retroshare network (though it does piggyback atop the BitTorrent DHT as a shortcut for peer finding). However, Retroshare has evidenced some significant problems on Windows as a platform, and UPnP for automatic port forwarding is dodgy at the best because not every home router out there supports it correctly (or at all). - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Who are you? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlIbxskACgkQO9j/K4B7F8Hn3wCgwbBRSYaLmWCv38fDMlsso8+g 6HAAn3fEucUf43FhZxVhUx/X6oOcfrJU =V4Zm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography