Yes, effectively. (Opennet behaves a little differently -- your
neighbouring peers are constantly being swapped and optimized to
approach a small-world topology.)
Does this mean that in Darknet mode the peers are not swapped?
The main advantage, I believe, is security -- opennet nodes are
relatively easy to monitor and traffic-analyze, given a strong opponent
like Big Brother, by compromising your (constantly changing) opennet
peers.
OK, I can see how the constant swapping may give a malicious member
the opportunity to build a topology of the network that would lead to
IP addresses of nodes owned by real people. Correct?
Given that this would take quite a bit of effort and time,
is there the possibility of putting in the network some decoy nodes
(honey-pots) that could lead to the violators?
In darknet, they would have to physically compromise each of your
friends. Also, since opennet nodes are ... open ... all opennet node ip
addresses can in theory be listed, and blacklisted. To do this in
Darknet would require physically traversing the entire network.
Is it because of differences in routing algorithms?
If I had a P2P with only 3 nodes that I own, then I would not have any
exposures.
If I have a darknet, is it through some trust that security can be achieved?
What makes darknet so much more secure than opennet?
Darknet was implemented to fix the rather serious security issue of
opennets.
Which was?
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