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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. Slashdot effect by charlie763 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They must have heard about the "Slashdot effect"

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