Please read the documents on this page: http://www.freenetproject.org/index.php?page=publications - especially the last one by Ian Clarke.
-Stefan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sukru Tikves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [freenet-tech] freenet vulnurability... > You claim that a maximum of 100 nodes can be searched > on any query. > > So if a new node inserts a new data, and another new > node requests that data, which has never been > requested before, there is only %0.1 chance that the > request will succeed on a 1,000,000 node freenet. That > is "unacceptable". > > Let's make something clear: the routing technique used > in freenet (for 0.3; 0.4 is not documented) is only a > heuristic fucntion that tries to "guess" where to look > for data. > > This will work good ONLY IF the data is moved to a > location it can easily be found. Otherwise, freenet > routing will only work for "fameous data", for regular > data it is a blind BFS which is pruned TOO EARLY. > > Can Ian comment on this? I hope he knows much better. > I also hope there is already an "advertising" > algorithm in freenet. Otherwise what I said is true. > > > Yes. Freenet doesn't query every single node, just > > the ones that are most likely to have the info. > > Furthermore, the maximum number of nodes your > > request is allowed to pass through is limited by the > > Hops To Live (HTL) value. Nodes will default to > > setting the HTL value to 100 if it sees an HTL > > higher then that. > > > ===== > Sukru Tikves, > Hacettepe University > Computer Engineering > Department, Ankara > > http://piskare.cjb.net > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. > http://phone.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > freenet-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
