[freenet-dev] FCP changes for ULPRs

Michael Rogers m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Thu Feb 14 23:43:35 UTC 2008


Matthew Toseland wrote:
>> "Ultra-lightweight" could actually be a disadvantage here, because if 
>> the peers can easily handle that number of requests they won't throttle 
>> the attacker.
> 
> No, he has to do a real request to get a ULPR subscription. Therefore it is 
> subject to all the normal throttling mechanisms.

But a real request can be, what, 100 bytes? 200? And the attacker only 
needs to send 3 per second to each peer.

Cheers,
Michael



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