Oh, thanks for clearing that up for me. I had no idea what hash functions were before. I thought we were talking about pot the whole time - man am I dissapointed now (I understand why my dealer said he didn't have any "sha hasch" though, you guys were really pulling one over on me).
Who said that a "certain key value" refered to more then one specific key anyways? On Sat, 03 Jun 2000, Michel Bouissou wrote: > Oskar Sandberg wrote: > > > [...] And the method that is used for discovery, > > the fact that the references point "downwards" rather the "upwards" along > the > > routing for inserts is a hypothetical problem spot in that it does allow > people > > some control of having requests for certain key value routed towards them. > > No. Because keys are made from hashes, you can't create hashes that would > force some kind of data to be routed to your node instead of another one. > Because there is no relation between the hashed key and the actual name or > contents of a file. So there's no way you could attract all "philosophy" or > all "porn" or all "mp3" to your node, because "mp3" or "philosophy" or "porn" > don't have anyhing in their hashed key that relates to their content. > > > [...] Also, if the key values for the references are > > taken from the requests as well, then you get another situation where people > > might hypothetically be able to steer the routing. > > Same as above... > > Regards. > > michel at bouissou.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
