[mnet-devel] Hack day: my plan

[Some Guy]

 --- Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:  
>  icepick wrote:
> >
> > My plan for hack day is to take my implementation for Chord, the Underboss
> > code (plus download/upload), the blockstore code, and the cp2pc interface
> > and create a twisted application out of it.  
Chord eh.  I that your favorite DHT topology?  I have one gripe about them: since request only go
one way around the ring you cann't know if the guy that's making you do work is doing work for
anyone, since he isn't doing any for you.  I've got this strange picture in my head of a sloppy
two way Chord where nodes maintain have random connections distributed to the other nodes in the
ring based on 1/<hash distance>.  What does your version of Chord do?

Someone on the list mentioned that MNet will eventually move to a DHT.  What's the plan?
What do you do with all the content trackers?  How do you implement a search engine in a DHT?

I found a really cool project:
http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/tarzan/overview.html
They're tring to do an TCP/IP layer anonymization layer.  They have some nice ideas in thier
paper, to force a topology where an adversary cann't make all his nodes wind up close to each
other.  Unfortunately they require all nodes to know about each other :-(.

Getting a fixed topology where the bad guys are spread evenly throughout is a big goal for
anonymity and for DHTs, since cancer nodes can otherwise wipe out specific material.

I think I've got a way to make a network do this.  Has anyone seen any other good projects that
try to do this?  Or does anyone have any good ideas.

Have fun at Hack Day.  What side of the planet are you having it on?

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