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Re: Hacker strikes through student's router



On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:00:26AM +0000, loki tiwaz wrote:

> by adding a protocol to signify persisting connections (so that while a 

What about clients maliciously manipulating the protocol to pretend
that a service has been rendered?

> circuit operates it is recognised as such) and a single signature check at 

How do you reliably prove that a service has been rendered?

> the beginning of the circuit establishment. sure it will add *some* load to 
> the server's cpu but the verification only has to be done once every 15 
> minutes per user at the most.

I'm not worried about extra load. I'm not sure how to build an
attack-resistant protocol, without a finite amount of tamperproof
coins circulating in the network.

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