On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> wrote:
> 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? > The output of my work will be simulations of the attack against some potential countermeasures as well as a paper. I do have an advisor supervising the work but I'm sure I'll be reaching out to the the community. > I'm happy to provide feedback on whatever you produce, just let me know. > Will do! > > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/20111226/255ce4ea/attachment.html>
