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Re:Tox – An encrypted P2P chat protocol that does not rely o... by evilaubergine on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:41PM (#18842086)
it has core bootstrap nodeshttps://wiki.tox.chat/users/nodes , and a pretty bad DHT formation, so by distributing a few nasty clients with bad bootstrap URLs you could easily cause multiple splits in the network
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Re:Tox – An encrypted P2P chat protocol that does not rely o... by p0la on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:44AM (#18843975)
Thx for the link.

Do you know if there is some sort of routing taking place ? Or all client are trying to consolidate a full Hash Table ?

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