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by jesprenj 680 days ago
Aha, thanks for that, the paper seems to reason better at first glance, I'll read it.

You mention sybil attacks on Kademlia, especially those that arise because nodes may set their ID and "camp around" some known key in the hash table. How is this addressed here? By glancing over the standard draft, I see the identifier is just a SHA-512 of the pubkey. Wouldn't it be feasible to bruteforce the first some bits of the key and "camp around" some keys a malicious sybil actor wants to deny service to?