On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:56:05PM -0600, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2003 04:41 pm, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 12:11 pm, Toad wrote:
> > > > So to limit this and other flooding biased attacks, I think we should
> > > > create a node blacklist, where your node will simply disconnect from,
> > > > and for a time, ban any node that demonstraights significantly deviant
> > > > behavior. One must also take care that anything that puts a node on a
> > > > black list is not propagated down any single request line so you don't
> > > > end up banned yourself.
> > >
> > > No use. Node identity is free. Web of positive trust is the only way to
> > > make it non-free, and not only is that a big implementation issue, it's
> > > a huge social problem.
> >
> > Humm, perhaps make noderefs contain some sort of complex calculation biased
> > on the IP and then have somesort of system where nodes can insert
> > references of misbehaving nodes and if a sufficient number of nodes voted
> > one as bad nobody could connect to it. Of course all this is fraught with
> > problems. Surely someone can come up with a better solution.
> 
> WAIT. I've got it! Add another level of hashing. So the content is encrypted 
> with it's hash, and it is stored in the hash of the hash of the hash, and 
> attached to the request is the hash of the hash. This way they the attack is 
> impossible to target. They would have to go through hashing values until they 
> found ones that falls in the aria they are trying to attack. To make this 
> more CPU intensive we could use a different hash algorithm, one with enough 
> bit depth that trying to create even a limited lookup table based on it would 
> be very impractical. This would break network compatability and require total 
> datastore reset, so lets throughly discuss this and/or other solutions before 
> implementing it.

It's a nice idea but they could easily brute force the first few bytes.

-- 
Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature

_______________________________________________
Devl mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl

Reply via email to