Re: 128bit RSA public key - time to break?

From: Shill (shill@free.fr)
Date: 02/24/03 

From: Shill <shill@free.fr>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:42:03 +0100

> In a P2P environment, currently each client generates a random 128bit
> number upon installation and uses that as its ID every session.
>
> Other clients that encounter this client keep a record of how much
> they have downloaded from this client and give it priority to upload
> to them if they encounter them again. Problem is, people just take the
> IDs of people that have uploaded a lot and use that to get preference
> over others.

This sounds like Kazaa's participation level. Is it anything like that?

http://www.kazaa.com/us/help/glossary/participation_ratio.htm

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