[Cryptography] Implementations, attacks on DHTs, Mix Nets?

[Christian Huitema]

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> The DHT model says that millions of Raspberry Pi's and thumb drives together implement 
> this immense database.  But since a DHT, by design, scatters the data around the network 
> at random, *my* thumb drive is full of information that I will never need - all the 
> information *I* need is out there, somewhere - where, based on the research we've been 
> discussing, I have no secure way to get at it.  Why would I buy into such a design?  Doesn't 
> it make much more sense for me to store the information relevant to me?

When we designed PNRP, I was pretty adamant to avoid this business of storing other people's data. We assumed that your data would be stored locally. The cost is a bit of added synchronization cost, effectively scaling as the number of records that have to be published. But if you are looking at a P2P name server type application, there are very few such records. 

Basically, the less nodes rely on strangers, the better.

- -- Christian Huitema


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