On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:42:22PM -0500, Brandon wrote:
> 3) KSKs are just pointers to to other files which provide a name. So all
>    you're really doing is misassociating a name, something that we have
>    to be robust against anyway since there are other ways to do this.

But if your pointer replaces a legitimate pointer with the same name, the 
file pointed to by the legitimate pointer will drop off the network due 
to lack of requests. It would be easy to censor MP3s, for example, by 
changing any KSK containing the string "mp3" that passed through your node 
to point to a nonexistent document. Unlike a black hole attack, your 
immediate neighbour would receive a file that looked OK so it wouldn't 
route around you.

Michael

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