Routing In The Dark: Scalable Searches In Dark P2P Networks.

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Presented at Blackhat USA 2005 by

Oskar Sandberg

It has become apparent that the greatest threat toward the survival of peer to peer, and especially file sharing, networks is the openness of the peers themselves towards strangers. So called "darknets"—encrypted networks where peers connect directly only to trusted friends—have been suggested as a solution to this. Some, small-scale darknet implementations such a Nullsofts WASTE have already been deployed, but these share the problem that peers can only communicate within a small neighborhood.