Luigi De Donà wrote: > Hi all, > > About the security of a software system based on a P2P protocol : > > In a distributed system (P2P) where doesn’t exist a Byzantine and > malicious faults tolerance protocol implementation, > > do you think that an Internet deployment using a closed protocol is more > secure than using an open protocol ? > > Could a SSL hop-to-hop communication really improve the general security > of a P2P systems ?
This is not very correct to speak about security "in general". Security issues should be discussed in a context of particular threats for which protection is required. Just as an example, protection of the data stream from the 3rd party interception and solving the problem of mutual peer-to-peer authentication are very different problems, and require different approaches. SSL is just a mechanism, and it needs to be properly used to achieve security goals. -- Wishes, Alexander Pevzner _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
