DHT attacks (was: Re: [Gzz] 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th (hh))

[B. Fallenstein]

address@hidden schrieb:
> The biggest problem in DHTs is that there might be hostile nodes which route
> requests purposely to wrong directions. However, there are proposal how these
> kinds of issues could be solved.

No-- the biggest problem is hostile nodes, but routing in wrong
directions is not the only problem. One big problem is that the node
responsible for a given key can *hide* items: simply not return some of
the values for a given key. There are solutions to this too, but it's a
different problem. -- Do (re-)read the article about security problems
in DHTs... :-)

-b.