Re: [freenet-devl] Document structure, storables, Metadata-length

[Oskar Sandberg]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:50:36AM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
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> So, it sounds like the way to go is to have a Storable.Client-data which
> would be presumably a Base64 string-encoding of an encrypted byte array.

Throwing data around in the Storables costs considerably more for the
nodes then leaving the data as a unit. I'm not sure that the saved work at
the client end is worth the extra work for every node.

> Should it decrypt to a (alphabetized) FieldSet or to a binary structure?
> 
> #1: decrypts to --
>         Metadata-length=<hex>
>         Symmetric-key=<hex>
>         End
> #2: decrypts to --
>         <2 bytes crypto key length><crypto key><8 bytes metadata length>
> 
> Either way we can pad it to a decent length by repeating some hash
> function of the data.

Remember, fields are limited to 1024 bytes in length...

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