On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:51:16AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
I like the decentral model. But I wonder about how to affirmatively deny an influx of attacking nodes overtaking the network. It surely cannot be relegated to the simple user? So that seems 'hard' to me.
You need each node reputation stored in a global distributed tamper-proof publishing system, obtained and acted upon by global quorum. This is not easy, but Bitcoin and Tahoe LAFS show how to build a more trusted network from untrusted components.
For example, I think Tor may remain centralish rather than pure dhtish for that purpose. But what if the centrality was undertaken
If you want to scale to millions if not billions of nodes, what are your options?
anonymously by some voting humans (or their analytic nodes). Their track recourd could certainly be public yet anonymous therein. You would at that point be trusting/subscribing their record, purely, as opposed to dht or some other means, purely. What would p2p-hackers@ have to say on this?