From 493b20efc21e834587024a4e6b349e93e85076a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gregory Magarshak Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:42:25 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Recommendation to avoid DDOS --- FAQ.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index 2023e5e..a6f29e7 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -683,6 +683,8 @@ So what can be done to protect IP addresses in DHT? A resilience to DDOS could be enhanced by creating a large network of provably legitimate DHT nodes. +The best way to increase anonymity and avoid DDOS would be to amend the DHT to remove IP information after one hop. This is what the SAFE network does with its DHT. In that case, no one participant could get the IPs of most of the network, unless they had a botnet that announced themselves as a "near-neighbor" of most topics. + ### Hyperdrive Hyperdrive provides many of the hard to create components to replicate the functionality of Dropbox and Google Drive. Beaker Browser adds the UI to it.