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Je jxauxdo 19 Aprilo 2001 09:56, vi skribis:
> > through the system.  My understanding is that each server has a catalog,
> > which can be fetched by request; for this to work, servers have to treat
> > catalogs as different from other data
>
> You don't understand the system at all then. Read
> http://freenetproject.org/in-freenet-keyindex.html.

Good lord!  You have to go through all of THAT just to insert something into 
the network??  What a kludge.  Even if you somehow manage to hide this from 
the users, you still have to do all of it programmatically, and there goes 
any hope of a simple design.  What is the suggested solution for the problem 
of locating a keyserver?  The mere existence of key servers compromises the 
network by giving attackers central point(s) of failure.

I'd like to hear one good reason TO use catalogs, other than "we've already 
done it" that isn't provided for by a more simple and robust mechanism.

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