Ed Tomlinson wrote: > Nodes keeps stats on their peers, watching > for peers that are abnormal (eg never reply with data, drop too many packets, > are only up 50% of the > time, do not update often etc.) When nodes agree to swap why not have them > swap this info too?
> The result of the above process is that a node will have an idea of nodes > that are trustworthy. This > will allow a node to ask during the swap process, do you want to connect? What about Sybil attacks? An attacker could create 1000 nodes, each of which would give positive reports about the others to persuade people to accept connections from the attacker's nodes. The attacker could then monitor traffic to perform statistical attacks, flood the network, or just drop messages, in which case the attacker wouldn't even need a large amount of bandwidth. Cheers, Michael
