On 6/22/06, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 08:46:57PM -0400, Evan Daniel wrote:
> > On 6/21/06, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > >Should we have a dropdown for each peer to indicate our level of trust
> > >for that node?
> > >
> > >Implicit  - 100% trust, can send local requests to this node even if its
> > >  our only peer.
> > >Strong    - can send local requests to this node if we have at least 3
> > >  connected peers
> > >Marginal  - can send local requests to this node if we have at least 5
> > >  connected peers
> > >Untrusted - don't ever send local requests to this node
> >
> > Doesn't this give the trusted nodes attack opportunities? :)
> >
> > If most of a node's requests sent to me are in one region of the
> > keyspace, except for an occasional few, then can't I assume that those
> > few are local requests sent to me because I am the best node with a
> > sufficient trust level?  (ie I'm deducing that he doesn't have enough
> > connected nodes to use a different, less trusted, but better routing
> > location peer instead of me.)
> >
> > Of course, there's a tradeoff here...
>
> Well, we can play that sort of game anyway; it's called a correlation
> attack...

And if it really bothered you that they might be able to make a more
precise guess you could just set all nodes to have the highest trust
level and it wouldn't have any different effect than it do now without
the feature.

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> Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org
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