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
> 
> 
> 
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