Re: Theoretical Master Thesis on sybil attacks on freenet

Thank you for this reference,

I'll surely read it

Sback

On Sep 18, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Thomas Bruderer wrote:

> Hello everyone
>
> I announced a half year ago that I write a master thesis over  
> possible sibyl
> attacks on freenet. I don't want to spam the devl list because the  
> info of the
> paper is already known, however not in these clear detail. So I  
> post it here on
> the technical list, since the information of the paper won't help  
> much in
> developing.
>
> The paper gives some theoretical background of how safe you might  
> or might not
> be in freenet, however the network topology is very very simplified  
> throughout
> the paper to make it possible to analyze it theoretically.
>
> For those who won't believe that darknet and trusted peers are a  
> necessity the
> paper will open your eyes. Freenet 0.5 and Opennet are wide open to  
> attacks
> described in the paper. A small step for freenet a big step for me,  
> I finally
> have some spare time :)
>
> Anyone interested can read the paper here, its quite mathematical,  
> but I hope
> easy to read to any Undergraduate CS Student.
>
> http://download.apophis.ch/paper/MA.pdf
>
> cheers
> Thomas Bruderer aka. Apophis
>
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