On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:09:18AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:52:37PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote: > > I have a new suggestion for this: just count the number of hits on each key > > and call that P, and whenever P reaches a certain limit, delete the key. > > Er - I am probably misunderstanding you, but wouldn't this create a > trivial attack for removing particular keys from Freenet? Simply hammer > nodes with requests until they drop the key you are requesting...
The idea is that once every several hundred or several thousand requests, the node will pass the request upstream, but the chances of 2 nodes dropping it at the same time will be very small. That's pretty much the entire reason I like this -- the effect of passing the request upstream once in a while. That, and the way it eliminates some problems associated with keeping track of P, such as figuring out how it changes with time, or how it can lead to storing too much specific information about request patterns. Yea, I know it's kooky. Doesn't mean it wouldn't work tho ;) -- # tavin cole # # "Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that # man doesn't have to experience it." # # - Max Frisch _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
