Don Marti:
> Then it turns into a tool to make a DoS easier. Insert a bunch of
> crap and constantly ping for it, to make everyone else waste storage
> and bandwidth. Right now "spamming" Freenet with lots of useless
> stuff is harder than that because you have to actually request it
> to keep it live.
That's not true, unfortunately - nodes have to forward the data even
if a node lower down in the chain hangs up, since if they didn't
then an attacker could use hung-up requests as a data probe.
In fact, my ideal flooding attack goes like this
- insert random data
- request that data from 1000 nodes and hang up
- repeat
although it seems that in practice Freenet is so vulnerable to
flooding that even relatively stupid attacks can be devastating.
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