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On DHTs

On DHTs quartzjer : I've done a lot of soul-searching in the last few months on the fundamental nature of a Distributed Hash Table and have come to regard them

By Daniel Chote

2014-08-10T15:05:48Z

In Rival Messenger

On DHTs

quartzjer:

I've done a lot of soul-searching in the last few months on the fundamental nature of a Distributed Hash Table and have come to regard them as a tool primarily for public use only.

The reasoning is simple: a DHT is by it's very nature optimized for larger numbers of entities communicating…