On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, Brandon wrote:
> > Keep in mind this is a server issue.  We probably need to decide what a
> > metadata-only request looks like.  Personally, I think it should work like
> > this:
> 
> There is both public and private metadata, though, at least
> hypothetically. i.e. the stuff in Storables and the stuff in the trailing
> field. I don't know if you want to be able to request just the Storables.

I think that a request that passes back the encrypted meta-data may well send
back the storables as well. If not for any other reason, then that the
encryption algorithm used should be in a storable field :-).

> >   Basically, it should be impossible to tell on the return path whether a
> > document or only the metadata of the document was returned.  An adversary
> 
> This will mess up caching, though, because nodes cache on DataReply and
> will sometimes be caching only metadata.

Yeah, meta-data only requests should not lead to catching, and they should not
be have a DataSource field (sending a DataSource field when data is not being
sent allows one to "home in" on what nodes are storing the data by sending a
new request to each node returned as the DataSource).

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