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Re:The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents by Zirro on Thursday January 12, 2012 @07:11PM (#3458560)
"I'm slightly concerned that DHTs might be easier to attack..."

The key is in the D. Since it is distributed, there's not a single server that can be attacked.

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Re:The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents by kronusaturn on Thursday January 12, 2012 @07:44PM (#3458635)
That would be nice, but unfortunately it's not really the case. It's quite difficult to make a secure distributed system that allows anyone to join (as opposed to a closed darknet).

Here are a couple examples of attacks that DHT is vulnerable to:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/101.pdf http://www.cs.rice.edu/~twngan/doc/infocom06.pdf

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