[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alex Pankratov wrote:
It appears to be a good time to mention BitThief, which allegedly
defeats BT's tit-for-tat mechanism.
http://dcg.ethz.ch/projects/bitthief
[snip]
Bram was well aware of this issue from the start, and his design has always
defended against it. To see how robust BitTorrent is against this attack,
observe that no matter how many BitThiefs there are out there, they will be
competing against one another for the fixed number of optimistic slots.
Also consider than BitTyrant will send little or no data to BitThief.
This proliferation of policies is fertile ground for grad students. :-)
Wes Felter - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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