#2358 new enhancement

Allow storage nodes to publish an arbitrary text description

Reported by: mhazinsk Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: undecided
Component: code-storage Version: 1.10.0
Keywords: anti-censorship location Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description

It would be useful for storage nodes to have a text field longer than the node nickname to store optional machine-readable descriptive information (e.g. physical location, owner information, etc). Once #467 is implemented, this could assist clients in choosing which storage nodes to use for uploads.

One potential use case of this is client-side mitigation of a Sybil attack if the introducer FURL string gets compromised. Clients could, for instance, refuse to use a storage node for uploads unless it can produce a PGP-signed message linking its node ID to a key in the client's local trust db.

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed at 2016-08-07T22:40:38Z by warner

  • Component changed from unknown to code-storage
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