--- Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some Guy wrote: > > > Long term if we implement something like premix routing, we could > > change the underlieing network to some more efficient DHT as long as > > it was secure against DSA and other censorship attacks dirrected at > > the data. > > I have never seen any convincing argument that a DHT will perform better > than pre-NGR routing under realistic network conditions, so it is far > from accepted that migrating to a DHT is a desirable goal, in the short > or the long term.
I'm not pushing Chord, CAN, Pastry, or some pet DHT of mine. What I'm saying is that if we don't have to worry about send/reciever annoymity, we're free to try other underlying nets be they NG, old-style, or what ever. That said you're right I have no conclusive evidence that any DHT peforms better than NG. However the only evidence I have to the contrary is that freenet is way more popular than the DHT projects out there. That doesn't convince the hell of me. Freenet maybe more populare because it claims to provide annoymity. > Furthermore, I suspect that NGR-based routing will be far superior to > DHTs under realistic network conditions, as DHTs tend to be rather > brittle. Someone should really do a proper comparison to resolve this > question once and for all. Well, Ken and I are discussing doing some things like this. I'm thinking of a simple experiment of NG kind of like in the 2000 paper you wrote. I just want to see if delivers a nice O(f(N)) route time and how long it takes an unspecialized net to converge. We probably should have done this a long time ago. As far as real life P2P systems being to brittle for DHTs. You may be right even though they claim things like O(log(n)) connection work, thier conectivity stuff is way complicated. My reaction is about like yours "way complicated"="way broken" most of the time. What ever DHT (count NG as a DHT) we used. It'd be free to focus on censorship resistance. That would mean fighting: * the targetted DoS attacks * cancer nodes * the other stuff people will think of __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Logos und Klingelt�ne f�rs Handy bei http://sms.yahoo.de _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
