Stanford Researchers Trying to Protect P2P Networks

Posted by CowboyNeal on Tuesday November 12, 2002 @01:36AM from the trusted-file-sharing dept.

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."

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Competition by Alpha-net · 2002-11-12 02:55 · Score: 0, Redundant

Competition (or oppression) has been known to improve the breed. It happened when they shut down Napster's servers, we don't need them anymore, and It'll happen again when we have to make it node sensing and again when we have to encrypt it and again.... BTW, anyone know why my Kazaa started crashing yesterday? ;^)