"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" writes:
> An unintended effect could be that local requests get sent mostly to
> nodes with a similar location, because these will be found again when
> connecting the next time. That would increase the average hops to
> content by one hop.
I see a way to use this to
Added discussion from FMS:
glenn@Oqb95agYHNenFlHLfHed92ZLbRRs0O4xHihnsmnIDQs wrote :
> What's the threat we are most worried about?
The biggest threat about requests in opennet is connecting to all nodes and
spying on their requests.
But the actual biggest threat is finding uploaders.
> It's
"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" writes:
> - New nodes in the network will not receive any local requests, so they
> will only route half as many HTL18 requests. A new node will therefore
> have not only half the anonymity set against an attacker, but also
> only half the cover traffic.
Also
Hi,
I’d like to start a discussion on the local request protections by
Trivuele: https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/778 — please comment.
I’ve been reviewing the patches by Trivuele, and I really like the idea
of limiting who receives local requests.
At the same time I’m worried, though. I
