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June 9th, 2002

cultiv8r

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I wonder, how does one connect to another node over TCP/IP, if TCP/IP needs an IP but you don't send one?

Looking through their source code, it definitely sends and receives IP addresses:

Code:

   String fsip=srcdata.GetDataValue("nodeip");
   String nodemanager=srcdata.GetDataValue("nodemanager");

and

Code:

  new URL("http://"+fsip+":"+fsport+"/"+objid);

So even if it is encrypted, you need a way to unencrypt it. So how can you unencrypt if you don't know how it was encrypted? You use a uniform, publicly known encryption. So there you go - it defeats the purpose because anyone can still unencrypt it and know the IP address.

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