On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:53:28PM -0600, Mark J Roberts wrote:
> Scott Young:
> > I'm talking about a function that is just like the data request, except it
> > doesn't return the data. It would basically return a boolean of wether it
> > succeeded in finding the data through the normal lookup methods. When I say
> > "find a route" I mean that each node would know the next node to request for
> > the data, like in the normal freenet fashon.
>
> I understand, and that proposal still falls squarely in the
> gives-me-suicidal-thoughts category. A sophisticated attacker will
> make good use of a passive data probe like that.
The boolean ping functionality would be equivalent to requesting a file
that was just 1 bit in length. And this wouldn't be a passive probe, as the
attacker would have to initiate a request. Such an attacker could just ask
for the file and then break off the transfer to have the same effect, coud he
not?
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