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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)."

3 of 71 comments (clear)

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

    The /. effect!

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  2. 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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  3. 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.