On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Philipp wrote: > Now you really got me confused. > Are you talking about the main encryption key for the document ? > Because as I recall the document encryption was introduced in the first > place so that a node owner could not determine what's on his machine. > Isn't including the encryption key right before the data somewhat > counter-productive ?
The unhashed keywork is right before the data, and therefore encrypted together with the data. It provides a fast way to check that the document was indeed encrypted with that key, and that the reply was not autogenerated by a cancer. > > CU, > Philipp > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
