On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 15:35, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:47:41AM -0500, Scott Young wrote: > > If you compare this to the reasons behind the probabalistic HTL-1 > > forwarding, I think it would be better just to abandon HTL altogether, and > > go for a completely probabalistic approach. Each request would be forwarded > > with a certain probability of being sent further. This would make it > > impossible for any analysis of the HTL value (solving the first few hops > > problem), and would make it much more difficult to determine wether or not a > > node has specific data (solving the HTL-1 problem). A malicious node would > > have no say in how far a request goes. > > that's true but the requester would not have any control on the effectiveness of his request, as the query may be dropped after 1-2 hops. However, does the current protocol of freenet support also a probabilistic approach to avoid the first few hops problem ?
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