Stanford Researchers Trying to Protect P2P Networks

dirvish writes "New Scientist has a story about efforts from researchers at Stanford to protect peer to peer networks from attacks that could be permitted by the proposed Berman Bill. Neil Daswani and Hector Garcia-Molina of the Database Research Department at Stanford University have mathematically modeled the Gnutella network to discriminate between nodes and supernodes. They then tested the nodes to find which rules could be applied to best avoid a malicious node on the network thus conserving bandwidth."

Comments

Re:But are their motives good?

[smd4985]

well, since i know neil (he is my brother) i can vouch that his motives are good. he is very opposed to the berman anti-p2p hacking bill and he feels that any attempt to hack p2p networks will just be foiled by better p2p infrastructure.
also, i'm not positive who is funding his research (that info is all public, if you look you can find out for sure), but i think it isn't corporate in nature - i think it is the defense dept. the US defense element has a high interest in securing p2p networks from attack since future military operations might be based on p2p technologies.

Re:JOIN the EFF. It helps.

[palme999]

Lobbying againt the right wing republicans and ashcroft is a good thing

I don't think it's the republicans you have to worry about. The democrats have been the ones pushing this legislation. A couple recent examples including the p2p bill in question:

CBDTPA (Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act) - Sponsored by Sen. Hollings (D-SC), co-sponsored by 4 other dems and one republican.

P2P Bill - Sponsered by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Cal)

Also take a look at how the Music/Movie industry spends their money. 17 of the top 20 recipients are Democrat.

TV/Movies/Music: Top 20 Recipients

Now who would you say is in the back pocket of the Movie/Music business?