[p2p-hackers] Fully

[Nick Szabo]

> "Also, a decentralized scheme such as in
> Kazaa has no availability problems but lacks integrity, since Kazaa is
> plagued with many fake files. Clearly, decentralization is an unsolved
> issue that needs further research."

Perhaps this is ironic, but a good solution is protocol-enforced property 
rights.  Specifically, we should treat names crossing trust boundaries as 
property, and securely agree across trust boundaries on who owns what names, 
as described in

"Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority",
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/securetitle.html

Nick Szabo