On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:19:43PM -0800, pineapple wrote:
> Uh oh!  I have another idea for this!  Another
> weakness with this attack is the assumption that is
> made about what constitutes a nearby key.  Right now
> all nodes arrange their estimator keyspace internally
> in the same manner.  Why?  The keys are encrypted so
> they are essentially random and therefore they have no
> relationship to each other based on their content.  My
> proposal is to randomly scramble the estimator
> keyspace using a function with a 1:1 mapping between
> the normal ordering and the new ordering scheme (I
> have no idea what function would be best for this). 
> Now an attacker has no idea what key would be "near"
> the target key because every node would have it's own
> secret ordering for the estimator keyspace.  Two keys
> may be near each other on one node but very far apart
> on another.  Please keep in mind I'm talking about the
> estimator keyspace only.

This destroys any chance of Freenet routing working.

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Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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