[p2p-hackers] Where do bright minds discuss p2p technology?

[Enzo Michelangeli]

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From: "Jacob Madsen" <01771 at iha.dk>
To: "Peer-to-peer development." <p2p-hackers at zgp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] Where do bright minds discuss p2p technology?

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> 2. Solve the "britney problem" either by using caching, a
> distributed sloppy hash table or some other method I'm not aware
> of yet.

That was discussed on the list a while ago: see the thread at
http://zgp.org/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2004-December/002283.html .

> 3. Make "nodeId theft"/spoofing impossible. Right now I'm not
> sure how I will do it.

Also this :-) http://zgp.org/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2005-April/002572.html
I think that just storing in the DHT an unguessable nonce (or "random
cookie"), never returned in aswers to queries but required in order to
replace or delete the <key, value, nonce> tuple, would do the job nicely
for simple applications: the nonce is obviously known to the nodes storing
the triple, but the chances of those colluding with the "thief" are
negligible). The OpenDHT team has devised more sophisticated mechanisms
for "community" scenarios when tuples stored by one client can be
legitimately removed by another associated client.

Enzo