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From: Morlock Elloi Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:41:40 -0700 (PDT) To: cypherpunks@lne.com Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] Project Announcement: P2P Sockets (fwd from bradneuberg@yahoo.com)

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stable IP address. Super-peers on the Jxta network run application-level routers which store special information such as how to reach peers, how to join

So these super peers are reliable, non-vulnerable, although everyone knows where they are, because .... ?

These super peers are known as Rendezvous peers in the Jxta world. They are as reliable and non-vulnerable as one could hope for, though I doubt they are perfect; I am building above the existing Jxta infrastructure for these. "Everyone" knows about them by using a common boostrap server to bootstrap into the Jxta network to gain the addresses of a few Rendezvous nodes. Rendezvous nodes then propagate information about their existence to other Rendezvous nodes at various times. Network partitions are certainly possible, and the requirement for a common bootstrap server is fragile. Jxta, and therefore P2P Sockets, currently has no protections against malicious/byzantine peers; it has relatively good protections against peers that fail non-maliciously. Brad Neuberg _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@zgp.org http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences ----- End forwarded message ----- [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]