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Re: [Asrg] Countering Botnets to Reduce Spam

2012-12-14 19:18:13
Thank you for the information Chris and Rich. A summary of that idea
could then be a distributed version of Tripwire, adding P2P, e.g.
distributed hash tables, or other distributed and decentralized
algorithms, to software approaches like Tripwire. ...

Other than the magic term P2P, what does this provide above what
packages like Tripwire do now?  Any particular distribution of Linux
is installed from a known set of masters, where the files have known
checksums.  The checksums are not large, and are not a big deal to
retrieve.  What does P2P add?  Random other Linux boxes are certainly
not more likely to have a set of good checksums than, say, an https
server run by a well known distribution organization.

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