Re: [Freenet-dev] Don't Talk To Strangers

[Scott G. Miller]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:34:02AM -0600, Brandon wrote:
> 
> > Also, what is the difference between your proposal and setting your node
> > to transient and adding other people's nodes to your nodes.config file?
> 
> A good question. Setting my node to transient and adding other people's
> node to my nodes.config file fails against an Enforcer attack. The purpose
> of my proposal is to defend against an Enforcer attack. The key element is
> rejecting connections from nodes which are not in my nodes.config, which
> the current node will not do, even if set to transient.
Why?  Even if an enforcer connects to your node, he doesn't know if the
data he requested came from your node.  Doubly so if your transient.

        Scott

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