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micro_softy on Sept 10, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scout: Securely Locate Peers Without Central Serve...

What is the key difference between "central servers" and "bootstrap servers"?

I mean DHT is "decntralized" once the client has a copy, but initially a client has to get a copy of it from somehwere.

And unless every client gets the DHT from a different source, the system seems "centralized" in that sense.

cjbprime on Sept 10, 2016 | [–]

Clients are allowed to store nodes received by the bootstrap servers and use them again at next startup, so the centralization is only on first run of the app.

Senji on Sept 10, 2016 | [–]

You could include a snapshot of the DHT on compile time.

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