[freenet-dev] Routing enhancement

[Michael Rogers]

Matthew Toseland wrote:
> The information is available now from swapping, it's a question of making it 
> more reliable, up to date and accurate.

Right, I'm just pointing out that attackers like reliable, up to date,
accurate information too. :-)

> Long-term intersection attack: Correlate the time at which inserts, requests 
> etc which can be tied to a specific identity happen with the time at which a 
> specific node is known to be online or offline. Generally this is much less 
> of a threat to Freenet than to a real-time mixnet.

Depends on the application - it could be used to identify Frost/FMS
posters, for example.

> The mechanism we are 
> describing would make it easier but only when attacking your peers' peers. 

My peers' peers are about 400 nodes (more if I raise my connection limit).

Cheers,
Michael