Antonomasia wrote:
My copy of "Peer to Peer" (Oram, O'Reilly) is out on loan but I think Freenet and Mojo use protocols that require new users to be contributors before they become consumers. (Leaving aside that Gnutella seems doomed on scalability grounds.)
Freenet and Mojo Nation have had serious issues in the wild, but my project, BitTorrent, is currently being used in serious deployment, and its leech resistance algorithms are proving quite robust - http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ This is a very narrow form of leech resistance, but it may be all that is needed. -Bram Cohen "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" -- John Maynard Keynes --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com