BitTorrent DHT
Discussions center on Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs), especially BitTorrent's DHT for decentralized peer discovery in P2P networks, covering bootstrapping, security risks like poisoning, and comparisons to protocols like Kademlia or Chord.
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This is not correct. The point of the BitTorrent DHT is to share address information of peers for a torrent.
I think you just reinvented the bit torrent mainline DHT.
Using DHT could be a really powerful solution for this.
I think the closest you might get is something like the bittorrent dht. There are still bootstrap servers for the first few connections, but there's really no getting away from that, right?https://github.com/webtorrent/bittorrent-dht
What stops attackers from poisoning the DHT? Could one publish false name IP address associations?
Yes, but I'm not sure any dht client handles that functionality.
Why didn't they set up a global DHT to find peers, like bittorrent?
bittorrent uses DHT with hardcoded bootstrap nodes. Has that ever been taken down?
Why don't people use DHTs for peer discovery for social media?
DHT (Distributed Hash Table) and PEX (Peer Exchange) let torrent clients find peers without centralised trackers. Hence, you don't need a central place / public tracker anymore