gnutella's problems (Re: network topology)

2002-03-28 Thread Adam Back
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 04:56:32PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the impression (maybe wrong) that guntella as it exists is something much worse than a tree, that connections are pretty much haphazard and when you send out a query it reaches the same node by multiple paths, and that

Re: network topology

2002-03-28 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 04:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Mar 2002 at 22:43, Eugene Leitl wrote: On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't recall ever having read of this type of structure before, but it seems so obvious that I'm sure it's been discussed before.

Re: FW: Homeland Deception (was RE: signal to noise proposal)

2002-03-28 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:14 PM 3/27/02 -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Additionally, Aimee is an Outlook user, and mattd is a Eudora user. The forgery referenced below was sent from Eudora. And strings in exe's can't be edited? I know of folks who've edited the PGP header line to

RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-28 Thread Tom Holroyd
You know, Lucky, most of the people here have been around the block a few times, and your previous post is just classic Usenet whinage. Complaining about puncuation indeed. Spare us, please. Look, we've all read the background. The improvement is a function f(n) which for large n may approach

Re: gnutella's problems (Re: network topology)

2002-03-28 Thread georgemw
On 28 Mar 2002 at 2:18, Adam Back wrote: And gnutella is not able to resume a transfer that dies part way through which is very bad for download reliability. FastTrack/Kazza (but no longer Morpheus since the Kazza / Morpheus fall-out) on the other hand can resume, and in fact do multiple

Re: gnutella's problems (Re: network topology)

2002-03-28 Thread Ian Goldberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And gnutella is not able to resume a transfer that dies part way through which is very bad for download reliability. FastTrack/Kazza (but no longer Morpheus since the Kazza / Morpheus fall-out) on the other hand can resume, and in

Re: gnutella's problems (Re: network topology)

2002-03-28 Thread Anonymous
Adam Back writes: Contrary to what article [2] claims FastTrack/Kazza really does blow Gnutella away, the supernode concept with high performance nodes elected to be search hubs makes all the difference. Gnutella last I tried it was barely functional for downloads, ~95% of downloads failed,

Re: Homeland Deception (was RE: signal to noise proposal)

2002-03-28 Thread Faustine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gil wrote: Faustine writes: best is write code, write code. The main thing is to DO something, whatever your skills and talents are. Spare everyone the hot air and just do it. What *you* say is hot air; what *I* say is policy analysis. But who's

RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-28 Thread Lucky Green
[OK, let me try this again, since we clearly got off on the wrong foot here. My apologies for overreacting to Damien's post; I have been receiving dozens of emails from the far corners of the Net over the last few days that alternatively claimed that I was a stooge of the NSA because everybody

RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-28 Thread Kevin Steves
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Lucky Green wrote: :Which brings me to an issue that I hope may be on-topic to this mailing :list: I would like to be able to enforce that the keys my users can use :to authenticate themselves to my sshd to be of a minimum size. Is there :a config option to sshd that will