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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. But can it help against the world's worst DoS? by Komrade+S. · · Score: 5, Funny

    The /. effect!

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  2. Or... by jpt.d · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The Non-Slashdot-Fund has dumped a load of money to the IReallyIsn'tSlashdot project to research an anti-slashdot technology called Distributed Hash Tables as a tool for creating networks that are involnerable to slashdots. The chief purpose seems to be to stop Death-of-you-by-Slashdot attacks, from front page or otherwise."

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  3. Hash Tables by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


    Well last time I was in Amsterdam they had these "Distributed Hash Tables". After about 2 hours I was feeling very decentralized.