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The way DNS works in i2p makes it unreliable and vulnerable to attacks. It wouldn't be to hard for an adversary to do a man in the middle or even do a fake version of a site. Also resolving DNS names is hard and takes a lot of effort.

Honestly the entire system needs to be rethought.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

definitely opens up another surface for attack, could see flooding namespace, sibyl, hijacking consensus mechanism somehow, lots of very bad content would surface too which some of the current "curators" try to dampen. Consensus mechanism would be tricky to get right

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It would need to have some sort of overhead cost to make attacks unfeasible. By adding that you would then be slowing everything down and creating a new source of problems.

It isn't a winning battle I guess.