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 ?

Bye,

Davide


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