-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- pierre@shell.portal.com (Pierre Uszynski) writes: [regarding DC nets...]
Q: How do you implement the idea that I can see my coin and the coin on the left, but no others?
A: You use public key cryptography. You join a "table" by contacting one of the persons already at the "table". He hands you address and public key of (say) his right neighbor, and you hand him your address and your public key.
Danger Will Robinson! The only danger you really face in being revealed through a DC net is when you are isolated by colluders on the graph. I know who the people to my left and right are. If I am colluding with either one of them and you ask to join the network I am on I will say "sure...you talk to person X" (my colluder) and you are now completely screwed. There are other options for network formation and joining, and I would recommend against this one... [regarding responsibility for messages and implication...]
It would be different (even with todays networks), if a large proportion of the messages were CLEARLY illegal.
Remember that on the net "legality" is often a _local_ thing. With a DC network consisting of participants from several different countries things might get very interesting, because it would be imposible to determine who a message came from and therefore who has jursidiction or even if any law was broken... jim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3 iQCVAgUBLM3sEfcwzmW/Wc5xAQGRwQP/c2uC8yOvVGr786KZ+TKjha/bGw2MK3DY yc/Sv8AOtjsvDHDloO0FiiRluL/uqB93CFNxPYUnTVXrJk5MogLOVdS0YnUu/IM/ m8wf7tSrLqiWbQy18+9lIeYstQfRss9KJDvGpWfhPJQajAReAM6rW4KonactYhW9 ja0s7PfH8Mo= =wp5w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----