Re: Solution to churn problem and possibly to the Pitch Black attack

--===============0318736807==
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec521575dd600b004a41d2cd8

--bcaec521575dd600b004a41d2cd8
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma-T/[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 May 2011 08:56:07 Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > You should simulate this. There are a few simulators but you might have
> to
> > write your own.
> >
> > The main difficulty I see is that greedy routing only works if most of
> our
> > connections are close and a few are distant. If they are all distant, a
> > request will get to roughly where it should be quickly but will not be
> able
> > to get to a specific location in a reasonable number of hops.
>
> To run a simulator, do I need to know Java? I have two computers, one a
> years-old Ubuntu installation that I haven't had time to upgrade, and one a
> recent DragonFly box that I've had trouble installing Java on. The Ubuntu
> box's Java interpreter reports the following:
>

My recommendation would be to whip up a simulation in whatever language you
are most familiar with.  It shouldn't be complicated, and will probably be
easier than the learning curve of using unfamiliar code in an unfamiliar
language.

This is very interesting work!

Ian.

-- 
Ian Clarke
Founder, The Freenet Project
Email: [email protected]

--bcaec521575dd600b004a41d2cd8
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Pierre Abbat <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=
=3D"mailto:phma-T/[email protected]">phma-T/[email protected]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>=
<div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margi=
n:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<div class=3D"im">On Tuesday 24 May 2011 08:56:07 Matthew Toseland wrote:<b=
r>
&gt; You should simulate this. There are a few simulators but you might hav=
e to<br>
&gt; write your own.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; The main difficulty I see is that greedy routing only works if most of=
 our<br>
&gt; connections are close and a few are distant. If they are all distant, =
a<br>
&gt; request will get to roughly where it should be quickly but will not be=
 able<br>
&gt; to get to a specific location in a reasonable number of hops.<br>
<br>
</div>To run a simulator, do I need to know Java? I have two computers, one=
 a<br>
years-old Ubuntu installation that I haven&#39;t had time to upgrade, and o=
ne a<br>
recent DragonFly box that I&#39;ve had trouble installing Java on. The Ubun=
tu<br>
box&#39;s Java interpreter reports the following:<br></blockquote><div><br>=
</div><div>My recommendation would be to whip up a simulation in whatever l=
anguage you are most familiar with. =A0It shouldn&#39;t be complicated, and=
 will probably be easier than the learning curve of using unfamiliar code i=
n an unfamiliar language.</div>

<div><br></div><div>This is very interesting work!</div><div><br></div><div=
>Ian.<br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>Ian Clarke<br>Founder, The Freenet Projec=
t<br>Email: <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">ian=
@freenetproject.org</a><br>


<br>
</div></div>

--bcaec521575dd600b004a41d2cd8--

--===============0318736807==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

_______________________________________________
Tech mailing list
[email protected]
http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
--===============0318736807==--