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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Blacklisting: obvious P2P app
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, David Schwartz wrote: > > > > Each mailserver could keep a cryptographically verified list, the > > list is distributed via some P2P mechanism, and DoS directed at the > > 'source' of the service only interrupts updates, and only does so until > > the source slips an updated copy of the list to a few peers, and then > > the update spreads. Spam is an economic activity and they won't DoS a > > source if they know it won't help their situation. > > If anyone who attempts to distribute such a list is DoSed to oblivion, > people will stop being willing to distribute such a list. Yes, spam is an > economic activity, but spammers may engage in long-term planning. You can't > keep the list of distributors secret. I'd be very interested in techiques > that overcome this problem. I've been looking into tricking existing > widely-deployed infrastructures into acting a distributors, but this raises > both ethical and technical questions. > > DS > >
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