Hi ianG,
These are some subjects I thought about:

- Running a DHT despite the NAT problems. (While many present non-elegent
technical ideas to route around NATs, there might be a nice theoretical
solution).
  - Navigation using Virtual DHTs (Like done in Cjdns. I think nobody
really knows to prove why it works, and whether it is going to scale).

- Creating a rigorous adversarial model for DHTs. (I think that we still
don't have one. Most articles on this subject resort to experimentation
because they can't prove correctness).

- Building a secure DHT.
  - Dealing with Sybil Attack and Eclipse attack (Many corrupt nodes
choosing DHT identities close to some value).


I tried to solve some of these myself, mostly from the direction of mesh
routing. My efforts are documented online, here:
http://www.freedomlayer.org/articles_index.html

Regards,
real.

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:51 AM, ianG <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all and happy new year!
>
> Request for comments:  what are the open topics in DHTs?
>
> I'm asking on behalf of a 4th year CS student preparing to do the final
> year project;  with possible extension into Masters.  Having worked with
> DHTs, the bug appears to have struck...
>
> iang
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