At 04:58 AM 8/6/04 -0700, Sarad AV wrote:

Since they are using symmetric keys, for a network of 'n' nodes, each node need to know the secret key that they share with the remaining (n-1) nodes.Total number of symmetric keys that need to be distributed is [n*(n-1)]/2. Key management is harder when they network gets larger.

That's not the problem ---if your node freely gives out its public key, no problem collecting them. The real problem is: how do you know its truly a given node's key? The web of trust is full of holes :-), trust isn't transitive, and Verislime is 1. not liable 2. 0wn3d by the Fedz.