Moglen on Freedom Box and making a free net [LWN.net]

Moglen on Freedom Box and making a free net

Posted Feb 15, 2011 16:00 UTC (Tue) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
In reply to: Moglen on Freedom Box and making a free net by maniax
Parent article: Moglen on Freedom Box and making a free net

There's some very interesting research on truly decentralized routing. Check out Matthew Caesar's publications on "routing on flat labels" or "virtual ring routing".

It should also be possible to have *secure* decentralized routing, but I'm not aware of good published research on that. Maybe Bryan Ford touched on it at some point.

I have some ideas about how to accomplish that, but I'm rather busy with Tahoe-LAFS, $dayjob, and so on at the moment. :-)

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Moglen on Freedom Box and making a free net

Posted Feb 15, 2011 17:27 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Re secure routing:

Have a look at Radia Perlman's byzantine-robust protocl: PhD thesis "Network layer protocols with byzantine robustness", MIT, 1988, http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14403; and "Routing with Byzantine robustness", Sun tech report TR-2005-146, 2005. The latter is more a brief description with extensions on the original, but I don't have a URL to hand.