[Tech] Theoretical Master Thesis on sybil attacks on freenet

[Matthew Toseland]

Cool! Any validation of our fundamental design principles is welcome. I will 
link the paper from the website soon, and try to get around to reading it.

On Tuesday 18 September 2007 08:31, Thomas Bruderer wrote:
> Hello everyone
> 
> I announced a half year ago that I write a master thesis over possible sibyl
> attacks on freenet. I don't want to spam the devl list because the info of 
the
> paper is already known, however not in these clear detail. So I post it here 
on
> the technical list, since the information of the paper won't help much in
> developing.
> 
> The paper gives some theoretical background of how safe you might or might 
not
> be in freenet, however the network topology is very very simplified 
throughout
> the paper to make it possible to analyze it theoretically.
> 
> For those who won't believe that darknet and trusted peers are a necessity 
the
> paper will open your eyes. Freenet 0.5 and Opennet are wide open to attacks
> described in the paper. A small step for freenet a big step for me, I 
finally
> have some spare time :)
> 
> Anyone interested can read the paper here, its quite mathematical, but I 
hope
> easy to read to any Undergraduate CS Student.
> 
> http://download.apophis.ch/paper/MA.pdf
> 
> cheers 
> Thomas Bruderer aka. Apophis
> 
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