Re: [freehaven-dev] DoS attacks?

[dmolnar <dmolnar@hcs.harvard.edu>]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Roger R Dingledine wrote:

> One of the ways people can attack the system is to flood it with messages
> of one sort or another.
> Assuming the mixnet can handle it (which is really out of my control...),
> attacks I see are:
> 
> Flooding requests for trades.
> Flooding requests for retrieval.
> Flooding notification of change-in-trust.
> Flooding requests to be a new node.
> 
> I imagine there are some others.

Also "selective" denial of service attacks, as introduced by
one RProcess -- nodes the adversary likes are flooded just
a little bit, or their communications sabotaged just a little bit.
Not enough to take them down, but enough to ensure that they
tend to be used less often than nodes which are not being so sabotaged,
which the adversary may control.