This is great Michael! What will the "output" of your work be? I'm guessing an academic paper that will be published? Do you have a professor supervising your work?
I'm happy to provide feedback on whatever you produce, just let me know. Ian. On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Michael Grube <michael.grube at gmail.com> wrote: > Created a stand-in Wiki page. You'll be able to track all of my progress > from here. > > https://snark.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W1 > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Michael Grube <michael.grube at gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Ian Clarke Personal blog: http://blog.locut.us/
