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Can Poisoning Peer to Peer Networks Work?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

andrewchen writes "Can poisoning peer to peer networks really work? Business 2.0 picked up my research paper from Slashdot and wrote an article about it. In my paper, I argue that P2P networks may have an inherent "tipping point" that can be triggered without stopping 100% of the nodes on the network, using a model borrowed from biological systems. For those who think they have a technical solution to the problem, I outlined a few problems with the obvious solutions (moderation, etc.)."

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  1. Use Limewire by asv108 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The latest versions of limewire use hashes from a specification called HUGE that probably defeat this type of posioning attack. You can check out a recent interview with limewire team here. Go here if you want to download the code or check out the dev docs(Which are pretty outdated).