[p2p-hackers] Identity Crisis: Anonymity vs Reputation in P2P Systems

[Wes Felter]

On Mar 18, 2004, at 1:01 PM, Sam Joseph wrote:

> Interestingly they use metadata to mediate their concept of 
> authenticity

What is interesting to me is that the stuff about metadata and 
authenticity is pretty much irrelevant to the paper. If the receiver of 
the file used arbitrary criteria to decide whether the file is good or 
bad, the results would have been similar AFAICT.

Wes Felter - wesley at felter.org - http://felter.org/wesley/