On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:17:10AM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote:
> Ken Corson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> I say datastore specialization doesn't cause anything because it
> doesn't affect the routing table (they're both affected by successful
> requests at the same time).  And since nodes don't route to you
> because you might have the data, but they route because you are closer
> to where the data is kept, the contents of your store are irrelevant
> for other nodes' routing tables (this is less true for NGRouting which
> will place more weight on the quicker response caused by cached data,
> but looking at it from the abstract, is still true).  
> 
> Caching data is just an optimization designed to cut down the work on
> the network by having repeated requests travel shorter distances.

Caching is also vital for plausible deniability. And it means there is
no source node - improving anonymity and attack resistance.
> 
> Thelema

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