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Amos Fiat,
Jared Saia,
Thomas Hobbes,
Rene Descartes,
Francis Bacon,
Benedict Spinoza,
John Locke,
Daniel Defoe,
David Hume,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Blaise Pascal,
Immanual Kant,
Giovanni Casanova,
John Stuart Mill,
Emile Zola,
Jean-paul Sartre, Victor Hugo,
Honore De Balzac,
A. Dumas
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ABSTRACT: r complete control of a constant fraction of the nodes in the network and yet will still be unable to generate spam. Work done while on Sabbatical at University of Washington. Key Words: peer-to-peer; content addressable network (CAN); distributed hash table (DHT); censorship; spam; fault-tolerant; butterfly network; routing; Byzantine; probabilistic method; expander graphs. 1. INTRODUCTION Web content is under attack by state and corporate e#orts to censor it, for political and commercial reasons ([7, 18, 16]). Peer-to-peer networks are considered more robust against censorship than standard web servers ([19]). However, while it is true that many suggested peer-to-peer architectures are fairly robust against random faults, the censors can attack carefully chosen weak points in the system. For example, the Napster ([28]) file sharing system has been e#ectively dismembered by legal attacks on the central server. Additionally, the Gnutella ([
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