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Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document
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Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document |
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Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:24:41 +0200 |
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Quoting Tuomas Lukka <address@hidden>:
> >
> > More vulnerable to attacks than what?
> >
> > Are you *seriously* suggesting that the DHT should store the actual
> blocks?
>
> What I'm seriously saying is that
>
> 1) DHT storing the actual blocks is
> + pretty well understood
> + quite efficient, robust and not too attackable
> - not good for us, because data is where the network wants it,
> not where users want it to be
> 2) DHT storing IPs of nodes is
> + in some ways what we'd like, because data is where users
> want it
> - not well understood and researched
> - efficiency unknown, if nodes blink in and out:
> in a DHT, the nodes nearby would notice that some node
> is down and remove it from the routing tables. In your
> suggestion ("benjanet" ;), the actual IP would be what
> everyone gets and tries to access.
> - unknown if we can ensure that data is reasonably replicated
> - quite easy to attack in various ways
>
> I'm saying that the assumption, when talking about DHTs is 1), since
> that's the alternative that's known.
>
> 2) is not at all known, and has potentially huge drawbacks.
Am I missing something important here ? AFAIK, DHTs only maintains the
distributed mappings of data key --> ip-address values (at least Kademlia based
DHTs). The ip-addess is the computer which provided the service into the
network.
Please confirm this and tell me if I'm wrong.
-Hermanni
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- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, (continued)
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, B. Fallenstein, 2002/12/14
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, Tuomas Lukka, 2002/12/14
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, B. Fallenstein, 2002/12/14
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, Tuomas Lukka, 2002/12/14
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, B. Fallenstein, 2002/12/14
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, Tuomas Lukka, 2002/12/15
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, B. Fallenstein, 2002/12/15
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, hemppah, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, Tuomas Lukka, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, hemppah, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document,
hemppah <=
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, Tuomas Lukka, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, hemppah, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, Tuomas Lukka, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, hemppah, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, Tuomas Lukka, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, hemppah, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, Tuomas Lukka, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, hemppah, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, Tuomas Lukka, 2002/12/16
- Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document, hemppah, 2002/12/16