Hello everybody, I just joined the list. It looks like one plank of the MPAA and RIAA strategy for dealing with P2P file transfers is becoming clear. They are asking Congress to give them "the right to hack" to stop copyright infringement. Here's an article: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-945923.html?tag=politech
This raises the question of Freenet's robustness to "attack" to a new level. Has anybody thought seriously about what sort of attacks might be waged against Freenet and what sort of countermeasures are in place or are needed to survive such attacks? In particular, content flooding is one type of attack. A set of bad-guy nodes could infiltrate and simply request for absurdly large quantities of files to be inserted. Another type of attack would be to try to identify and monitor a sufficiently large or well-chosen portion of the network to use legal and/or technical DOS techniques against the nodes. Yet another would be to try to infiltrate a large number of nodes that would purposefully respond with malicious signals in an attempt to degrade Freenet's retrieval mechanisms. For example, a "dumb" node could respond to insert requests by doing nothing but reporting success and to retrieval requests by always report failure or supplying bogus replies. Has anybody thought about other attacks or how to defend against the above? If a bad-guy node can be identified, is there any mechanism to expel or blackball it? If there is, how do you prevent this mechanism from being attacked? If there isn't what percent of nodes have to be comprimised before the network effectively dies? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
