On Thursday 02 December 2010 23:28:21 Matthew Toseland wrote: > > One useful measurement for that would be obtaining a "IP => Country" map > > Care to find one? >
http://sourceforge.net/projects/javainetlocator/ Have not read its source code > > and > > displaying a country flag next to each peer, then even > > non-Freenet-engineers could figure out whether their node is well > > connected. > > I don't see what you mean by well-connected here. Well connected = your peers are from your country or near your country, not from the other side of the world > > Further, I propose an additional and easier to implement improvement > > against this attack: Provide a configuration option "Do not connect to > > strangers from my country" which prevents Opennet connections to peers > > from the same country... > > - Attackers are very likely to be from the same country, both federal and > > commercial ones. > > Interesting possibility, similar to some other networks. I'd be a bit > worried about impact on routing - given the small performance bias in > opennet, isn't it possible that the nearby peers location-wise are all in > your country? We might first implement the country-display of peers to see what the situation is now .... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20101203/bab444b9/attachment.pgp>
