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

[Michael Rogers]

Hi Jacob,

> 1. Implement several known and structured DHTs (like Chord, Kademlia, ...) 
> with a common interface and compare them by running some tests.

These papers might be worth a look: 
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gummadi/papers/p1101-gummadi.pdf
http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/chord/papers/iptps-evol.pdf
http://project-iris.net/irisbib/papers/dhtcomparison:iptps04/paper.pdf

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

Castro et al looked at this problem: 
http://www.research.microsoft.com/~antr/PAST/security.pdf

> 4. Implement a simple filesystem where all nodes have a synchronized index of 
> the directory and file structure. Again, I'm not sure how I will do it.

Might be worth looking at CFS, PAST and FARSITE.

Cheers,
Michael