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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)."

7 of 71 comments (clear)

  1. OS is slow by jchristopher · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Even with Jaguar, OS X is still slow...

    1. Re:OS is slow by jpt.d · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Agreed, ICQ can take up 25%+ of your cpu, Internet Explorer Download Manager will take up 20%, Chimera will eat 30%, top will take 10% as a monitoring fee, and your mouse cursor moving will take up 10% leaving 5% for remaining programs and visual effects.

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      What we see depends on mainly what we look for. -- John Lubbock Now search for that bug slave!
    2. Re:OS is slow by jchristopher · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Don't forget iTunes, it took 40% of the CPU on my iBook just to play an MP3!

  2. you're such a loser for knowing that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    loser.

  3. Sweet! by NeuroKoan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who knew hemp could also help improve the internet?

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    "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."
  4. A disturbingly RELEVANT quote from today's fortune by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    When you get your PH.D. will you get able to work at BURGER KING?

    Well?
    WILL you, IT Boi?
  5. Re:Freenet? by beowulf_26 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Freenet is not like being drunk liek I am now. Hello slashdot, if anyone would like to come over to my house and help me finish the 14 litres of beer that were taken out of my newly departed Keg of Labatt Blue, you are more than welcome. Pleaze hlep, my cousin has cancer.

    All of this has been some horribly disjointed series of truths uttered by an arrogant drunkaard. I love you all, good night and good luck. modd me down accordingly.

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