[freenet-dev] Moving to a simple coin was Re: Tunnels vs premix routing was Re: Vulnerability in inserting the manifest before finishing

[Michael Rogers]

On Jan 16 2008, Matthew Toseland wrote:
>> We could flip one coin per peer at  
>> startup, 

Sorry, I've realised this wouldn't work. Flipping a coin at startup can 
only have two outcomes: drop all requests for that peer or drop none!

Flipping one coin per request gives the attacker too many predecessor 
samples, so I guess weighted coins aren't useful without tunnels or premix 
routing.

Sorry about that,
Michael