On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you for the reply and links, Wes. > >> A peer could lie, saying that it received no data, but your >> certificates don't prevent that since a lying peer could just discard >> them. > > What would be the peer's benefit from lying or dropping > certificates? I agree this is a possible attack vector but from > the perspective of a greedy, but not malicious peer there's nothing > to be gained from such behavior.
Indeed. So if the peers are honest they don't need crypto and in the unlikely case the peers are dishonest, crypto won't help. But this isn't my area, so maybe I'm missing an attack that the certificates stop. Wes Felter - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://felter.org/wesley/ _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
