Tried creating a Wiki Page, had the same problem Ian described. On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Michael Grube <michael.grube at gmail.com>wrote:
> Ian, > > I've actually made a commitment to do this and will have to complete this > task to graduate from college ;) > > That means I'll be done before May and will start in about 2 weeks. Of > course I can start sooner than that, but something else is gripping my > attention at the moment. > > Mike > On Dec 25, 2011 3:21 AM, "Ian Clarke" <ian at freenetproject.org> wrote: > >> What is the latest status of addressing the "Pitch Black" attack >> described here: http://grothoff.org/christian/pitchblack.pdf ? >> >> I understand that the basic idea is to counteract the clustering by >> periodically randomizing node locations, and Oskar's refinement to >> this is to pick a key randomly, route for it with a special query that >> returns the nearest node identifier to the key found. If the closest >> you can get is much further than your distance to your neighbors, give >> up your current position for the random one. >> >> Is this the latest thinking on this? There was talk of working on a >> paper which describes this solution and validates it. Is anyone doing >> this? Is anyone interested in doing this? Unfortunately at the >> moment the attack remains unanswered in the academic literature, and >> it has already caused at least one of our papers to be rejected. >> >> Ian. >> >> -- >> Ian Clarke >> Founder, The Freenet Project >> Email: ian at freenetproject.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Devl mailing list >> Devl at freenetproject.org >> http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20111225/753b0142/attachment.html>
