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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. Just a thought... by mmoncur · · Score: 3, Informative
    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.

    Wasn't that the goal of the ARPANET project that led to the Internet in the first place? I guess it didn't work.

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  2. Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) in P2P... by gojomo · · Score: 5, Informative
    DHTs are also the key to the next generation of efficient, centerless P2P file-sharing.

    Two well-known academic DHT projects are Chord and Kademlia.

    Kademlia is the basis for VarVar and EDonkey's successor, Overnet. There's an experimental effort to add a Chord-style query routing option to Gnutella, to find exact files over the whole network with far less traffic.