[freenet-dev] Securing swaps? Was: Alpha, Darknet routing, et al.

[Michael Rogers]

Matthew Toseland wrote:
> So a swap will only happen if it minimises stress for *both* nodes, rather 
> than before it would happen if it minimised total stress for both nodes 
> combined. Clearly this is a significant change to the transition 
> probabilities... It might very well lead to false minima?

Yup, I thought it might just reach the optimal solution more slowly but 
it seems to get permanently stuck at suboptimal solutions.

> One thing to try is 
> to use the same random for each node's decision (since this is likely how it 
> will be implemented in practice).

See attached - using the same random number seems to make things 
slightly worse, I don't know why.

Cheers,
Michael
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