Re: udp retrieval protocol

* 2004-04-28 Lester Vecsey:

> Now, is anyone here familiar with Bit Torrent?
> http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
>
> I wonder if the UDP based denial of service resistance could be taken a
> step further using the techniques mentioned in the BitTorrent paper.
> Specifically, this would be very useful for the case of a mailing list
> with many people retrieving the same daily message as the load would be
> distributed without a single point of failure.

for mailinglists this sort of "P2P" concept would work, but you still need
to provide consitency.  every user wants to see *all* messages, even when
his peer didn't have the complete set.

for private emails, people would have to use end-to-enc encryption to keep
privacy.

  clemens