> Excacly, so upload assainatepresident.txt and they have number of suspects > reduces from 10.000 to 10. Not only that but all the co-suspects are your > friends! It's enough that there is a majority of evil nodes and all goodnode > groups are surrounded by evil nodes, you can do the math yourself.
Unless They can see the entire network (in which case you're screwed anyway) then exposing a single node does not give them 10 suspects (the nodes your friends run). It gives them one suspect. In order to find the rest they have to go to the first suspect, find his node list, go to each of those, etc.. > If this ever gets to become a problem 2 ways to defend against it asfaik are > to do signature verified autoupdate of client, and update the protocol > regular intervals, closed source would probably also be reuiqred for this. > The other solution is to try to make a flashier gui than the competitor. And > if open source is bad in something, its in flashy gui's. Autoupdating of clients doesn't help if your client is already evil or the node you're talking to is evil. Changing the protocol only works with a very weak adversary that can't reverse engineer it. If people want to use an client because it looks cooler even when we yell about how it's probably evil and they shouldn't trust it, then they're screwed inherently by their way of life. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
