Ian,

I've actually made a commitment to do this and will have to complete this
task to graduate from college ;)

That means I'll be done before May and will start in about 2 weeks. Of
course I can start sooner than that, but something else is gripping my
attention at the moment.

Mike
On Dec 25, 2011 3:21 AM, "Ian Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote:

> What is the latest status of addressing the "Pitch Black" attack
> described here: http://grothoff.org/christian/pitchblack.pdf ?
>
> I understand that the basic idea is to counteract the clustering by
> periodically randomizing node locations, and Oskar's refinement to
> this is to pick a key randomly, route for it with a special query that
> returns the nearest node identifier to the key found. If the closest
> you can get is much further than your distance to your neighbors, give
> up your current position for the random one.
>
> Is this the latest thinking on this?  There was talk of working on a
> paper which describes this solution and validates it.  Is anyone doing
> this?  Is anyone interested in doing this?  Unfortunately at the
> moment the attack remains unanswered in the academic literature, and
> it has already caused at least one of our papers to be rejected.
>
> Ian.
>
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