On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:55:20PM -0400, Colin Davis wrote: > As much as I like the idea of zipping containers together, to ensure > that a site is entirely downloaded, I'm a bit worried about a > vulerability with massive zip files, that compress very small. > > In theory, I could build a zip file with a 10GB file full of Zeros.. > Zipping it up, it would be microscopic.. Easily less than the 1MB > Freenet can handle. If I were to have this 10GB zip file in there, and > also add in a index.html, then upload that as a container package, how > would freenet deal with that? > > I suspect Bzip2 would have the same problem.. Is there an easy solution > to avoid this I haven't thought of?
Yes. Limit the size of the output. This has been implemented, thank you for pointing it out. > > Colin -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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