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Added some thoughts on how to harden the DHT.

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List of possible attacks on the current DHT:
create thousands of fake nodes cloning one client_id and flood our DHT with
them.
create thousands of "real" nodes that do nothing but shit up our DHT with fake
crap.
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Possible solutions:
Each client_id is the public key of the peer so it would be trivial to encrypt
the DHT requests with crypto_box(). This would completely defeat the first
attack.
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