On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:50:36AM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote: <> > So, it sounds like the way to go is to have a Storable.Client-data which > would be presumably a Base64 string-encoding of an encrypted byte array.
Throwing data around in the Storables costs considerably more for the nodes then leaving the data as a unit. I'm not sure that the saved work at the client end is worth the extra work for every node. > Should it decrypt to a (alphabetized) FieldSet or to a binary structure? > > #1: decrypts to -- > Metadata-length=<hex> > Symmetric-key=<hex> > End > #2: decrypts to -- > <2 bytes crypto key length><crypto key><8 bytes metadata length> > > Either way we can pad it to a decent length by repeating some hash > function of the data. Remember, fields are limited to 1024 bytes in length... -- 'DeCSS would be fine. Where is it?' 'Here,' Montag touched his head. 'Ah,' Granger smiled and nodded. Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
