[p2p-hackers] In search of the Darknet....

[Wes Felter]

Duncan B. Cragg wrote:
> Wes Felter wrote:

>> But why haven't friendnets taken off? I don't know. Maybe because 
>> they're really hard, and their primary beneft is to resist attacks 
>> that are not yet commonplace.
> 
> Really hard? Some of the stuff I've seen in P2P generally looks really
> hard to me..  And there's more to P2P than resisting attacks, like being
> a useful technology for sharing photos.. =0) (I know that's not the
> /raison d'etre/ of this list, but there are a lot of subscribers here
> involved in 'civil' applications).

I think just about any P2P app (e.g. private photo sharing within 
groups) could be built with some combination of DHTs, FEC, crypto, 
capabilities, and pet names. (Consider ePOST as an example.) The only 
additional benefit of a friendnet IMO is attack-resistance.

(And in the post-Grokster climate, *all* of us Americans are working on 
legitimate P2P applications... :-) )

Wes Felter - wesley at felter.org