---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: SplitFile healing question Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 00:11:44 -0500 From: Gianni Johansson <[email protected]> To: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins at cam.org>
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 21:33, you wrote: > Hi, > > What prevents a hostile node from using 'healing' to insert garbage blocks? > This could be used to make checks fail and files really hard to > download... Nodes don't heal. Clients heal. Healing just means that the client request process reinserts some of the reconstructed data and check blocks. I guess you could insert a corrupted SplitFile (as many have in the past ;-) ) Then the healed blocks would would be the pieces of the corrupt file. I don't see how this is an attack. It's just bad data that you can identify as such (i.e. by it's freenet key). You would hope that people would stop using that file. > Ed Tomlinson ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
