how to do censorship resistance (Re: Grapevine Technical Overview)

Stephen Blackheath stephen@blacksapphire.com
Tue, 28 May 2002 13:38:57 +1200


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Bram,

We've thought of that one.  :)

Another good thing about toroidal space is that you never have to traverse 
more than half of space, because if you did, you'd be better off going in the 
opposite direction.


Steve

On Tue, 28 May 2002 12:37, Bram Cohen wrote:
> I should probably mention a technical point about Grapevine's routing - it
> involves distance in 6-space, with each node getting a random point. This
> will tend to make some nodes get a lot more traffic than others just
> because they're in the center of the space, while others are on the edge.
>
> You can fix this problem by making the space toroidal, which means the top
> and bottom are close to each other. I sent in a patch to do this for
> freenet, even though it's just one-dimensional. I don't know if that patch
> was ever applied though.
>
> -Bram
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