Kevin Atkinson: > The probability of selecting three malicious, buggy hosts will be very low > since part of the selection criteria will be on past performance. > Furthermore it will likely select the same couple of hosts to download the > blocks of the file.
Biasing node selection based on past performance is probably illogical. If a reliable node emerged on to the network, it would be recognized as reliable and flooded. Then it wouldn't be reliable any more. I'm still unconvinced that block retrieval is as reliable as you say it is. Even if a transient error or malicious host can never cause a block failure, the network's algorithm itself may not be reliable. Is it reliable? (where reliable approaches 1) _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
