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NSF Grants for Decentralized Infrastructure Research

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the routing-around-trouble dept.

billbaggins writes "The NSF has given a grant to the IRIS project to research something called Distributed Hash Tables as a tool for creating networks that don't have "centralized points of vulnerability". The chief purpose seems to be to stop DoS attacks, intentional or otherwise. Check out their press release (text or Word format) and also the news coverage (CNN and NYTimes, among others)."

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  1. Re:Freenet? by mizhi · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The difference is that IRIS is developed by MIT and Freenet isn't.

    You can take that as either a sarcastic or serious comment. I think it's a little of both.

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