[GNUnet-developers] Is the DHT enumerable?

[carlo von lynX]

I think I remember that either the answer is no, or that
the way GNUnet uses its DHT ensures that it is not a problem.

I am asking to know whether it is an aspect we need to keep
an eye on when designing new DHT apps, given the terrible
experiences seen with the Tor, Retroshare and Bittorrent
projects in that regard. I am aware that "naked" use of
the DHT may still bring about sybil attack scenarios, but
right now I am concerned about attackers being able to walk
the DHT and systematically cause disturbances to our services.

So to answer my question I consulted src/dht,
documentation/gnunet-c-tutorial.texi and
documentation/chapters/developer.texi in that order.
The latter mentions that there are two papers I should look
at, but neither of them are linked in the texi file.
I would suggest to provide links directly out of the
documentation.

I tried https://gnunet.org/dht - but there is no such page.
Then went for "Publications about GNUnet", but it makes no
mention of "dht" over several pages.

So here I am, asking the list!

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