[BitTorrent] Re: Falsifying uploaded and downloaded amounts?
Olaf van der Spek
OvdSpek at LIACS.NL
Wed Jul 21 17:26:13 EDT 2004
Michael wrote:
> Would it not be possible to have each peer submit to the tracker the
> amount of data they have received from each peer they have downloaded
> from?
>
> Then a tracker could look at the share ratio that a given peer has
> supplied compared to the data that came in from all the peers who
> have downloaded from the given peer and attempt to find discrepancies
> that would give away leechers using "bad" clients.
>
> Or is it the popular opinion that this isn't an issue of any
> importance?
>
> Of course, with that solution, it would be possible for someone with
> malicious intent to write a client that would be able to tell the
> tracker they have received nothing from a certain peer.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts?
The goal/idea is to decrease the data traffic of the tracker, not to
increase it.
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