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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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