On 03/22/2013 01:25 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Hi,
Sree Harsha Totakura<[email protected]> skribis:
For authentication, we intend to use GPG with gnunet-update. The idea
is that the gnunet-updater would search for updates using GNUnet's File
Sharing service and downloads meta-data files. It then verifies if the
meta-data files are signed by a trusted key (which is user-configurable)
and proceeds with the download of actual binaries.
OK. Wouldn’t using the AFS service be a bottleneck, in terms of
availability and bandwidth? My impression is that it might be OK for
small updates like those of GNUnet itself, but not for a full distro.
We won't be using the *anonymous* file-sharing for this.
For Guix, downloading binaries is an option that is only worthwhile if
it’s faster than building locally.
Of course.
-Christian
