[freenet-dev] A simple attack

Author: Matthew Toseland
Date:
To: devl
Subject: [freenet-dev] A simple attack

gpg: Signature made Sat Nov 17 23:04:26 2007 UTC using DSA key ID E43DA450
gpg: Good signature from "Matthew John Toseland <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>"

Overload a node. Now you know all the requests it sends you are locally
originated.

How to beat this attack: Use the same criteria to choose whether to send
locally originated requests as remotely originated ones.

Do we do this? In some places, not in others.

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