• Natanael@infosec.pub
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    1 day ago

    I2P already did that with their DHT network (remember DHT?). I2P Bote uses that for messaging

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      18 hours ago

      Eh, no. A DHT doesn’t solve offline storage of data, when the source node is already offline, and the target node is not yet online.

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        18 hours ago

        It does temporarily, on the order of hours to days. It’s not designed to use the network for long term storage, just message passing

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          No, DHT is just a way of determining paths and priority of value lookup by key in the network, so that the load were distributed predictably, while allowing you to find, well, what you are looking for. BTW, while everybody uses Kademlia with modifications, I’d argue that Chord is better for anything related to security and anonymity.

          Storage and serving of anything big is another thing. I take it you mean that I2P nodes cache messages relayed via them when the target node is unavailable. That doesn’t have anything to do with DHT.