[Dev] Crypto++, Twisted, p2p

[Zooko]

Howdy Charles:

> The distributed hashtable (DHT) systems I mentioned (of which I'm most 
> familiar with Pastry) have been shown to be very efficient in lookups 
> (which are O( log N )), messages exchanged when joining, etc. In fact, 
> they've been shown to scale effectively to millions of nodes in 
> simulation.

FWIW, although I'm a huge fan of DHTs, I don't think they have a good story 
yet about how to handle malicious nodes.  Therefore, I currently take all 
their vaunted scalability with a grain of salt, as deploying to a million 
machines in Real Life without accidentally including malicious players seems 
rather unlikely.

This conversation is sort of wandering, as conversations tend to do.  I chose 
to post to the dev list instead of to the "design" list because I was 
originally posting about which crypto toolkit to use (Crypto++).

I look forward to learning what Chandler's networking/security requirements 
actually are.  :-)

Regards,

Zooko