Re: [JXTA discuss] how to stop malicious peers?

Michele Amoretti wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Suppose a malicious peer enters a peergroup and starts sending a lot of 
> "remotePublish" or "query" SRDI messages. Are the rendezvous able to ignore 
> these messages? How can they do that?

A rendezvous can remove the lease of its client at any time. A 
rendezvous policy control could be implemented to reject edge
peers that are generating abnormal traffic.

Hth,

B.

> 
> I need this info because I want to implement a sort of "blacklist" of 
> malicious peers. 
> 
> Moreover, I want to define some "roles", e.g. "searcher" = the peer is not 
> able to publish, but it can search for...
> I know that the allowed actions of a peer can be set locally, through the 
> AccessService. But I think this is not enough to guarantee that a peer 
> performs only the actions for which it is authorized (a peer can be 
> hackered...). There is a need for monitoring and blacklisting performed by 
> the other peers of the peergroup (maybe by peers with "admin" role).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> p.s. sorry for crossposting but I did not receive this mail from 
> [email protected], thus I think it has not been correctly received by that m.l.
> 
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