A Novel Approach For Computer Worm Control Using Decentralized Data Structures

Re:A Novel Approach For Computer Worm Control Using Decentra... by needmoney90 on Saturday December 13, 2014 @04:08PM (#8746420)

I'm not surprised that someone else had the idea. Honestly, the fact that it wasn't in the wild yet surprised me. Great code, I'll be looking over it in my free time!

(I'm one of the authors of the paper)

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Re:A Novel Approach For Computer Worm Control Using Decentra... by hedgehog on Saturday December 13, 2014 @06:01PM (#8746806)

Are you aware of Dave Dittrich's work at University of Washington? He wrote a nice overview on secured P2P C&C networks in Storm and Nugache that you might find interesting:

http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/writing.html

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Re:A Novel Approach For Computer Worm Control Using Decentra... by needmoney90 on Saturday December 13, 2014 @07:50PM (#8747081)

I cited one of his papers actually, I didn't know that site with all his works existed though. Thanks for the link, I'll read some more of his writings.

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Re:A Novel Approach For Computer Worm Control Using Decentra... by verroq on Saturday December 13, 2014 @08:05PM (#8747103)

It seems that even DHT based botnets need to hard code initial peers. Using the Bitcoin network eliminates this completely (now you need just need Bitcoin's bootstrap nodes).

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