On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 04:29:18PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:58:56PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:33:21AM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > > > And how the fuck does "one reference per node" help against a malicious > > > attacker? Nothing stops them from making up a new node identity with > > > every reply. > > > > A new IP address every time? Not impossible, but rather difficult. > > I don't know about you, but I am in this project for the long haul. I > will not support the implementation of any security measure that relies > on the short term shortage of addresses in the current underlying > network level address space.
It is an incremental security measure, it makes something more difficult, but not impossible. Freenet is full of such security measures, in fact, Freenet *is* such a security measure. This may not stop a determined attacker, as you point out, but it will make such an attack more difficult. Either way, this was a secondary goal, the most important thing is that it will prevent the natural formation of ubernodes. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010619/dac5880b/attachment.pgp>
