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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)."

6 of 71 comments (clear)

  1. I smell lawsuit by Crazieeman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The RIAA won't stand for this. They want the power to DoS and are pushing legislation to make it legal for them. So this will probably be in violation of the DMCA somehow. They'll get their bloodsuc- I mean lawyers right on it.

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

    The /. effect!

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  3. 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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  4. Freenet? by E1ven · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can anyone explain to me how this is different from Freenet?

    Freenet has a Decentralized Architecture, which is specifically designed to resist DOS attacks, by making each client that views the page into a possible server..

    With freenet, any DDOS attempt would actually make the content MORE accessable, as it spread it to more and more nodes..

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  5. 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.

  6. Completely wrong by Sanity · · Score: 4, Insightful
    You are sooooooo wrong, and it is you that have been modded up unjustly, since you clearly don't know what you are talking about.

    Freenet searches do not work like Gnutella, as you would know if you knew anything about Freenet.

    Freenet's search has, through multiple independent simulation-based studies (cited in the link I give above), been demonstrated to have logarithmic scalability, not the linear scalability you claim.

    To inject some facts into this conversation - Freenet isn't exactly the same as a distributed hashtable, as it doesn't guarantee retrievability of information, but this is probably an inevitable consequence of achieving Freenet's goals, and Freenet's developers aren't shy about it.

    The claims you have made about Freenet are total FUD.