On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:05:52AM -0400, Chris Anderson wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2001, Oskar Sandberg wrote: < > > > In which case one could question whether we need a DataLength field. It is > > a orthogonality verses layering issue, though in this case I think > > layering wins out... > > > > Doesn't power of 2 data sizes waste 25% of bandwidth & storage? That's > costly.
Only for data that is atomic, we expect that most (large) data will be split into parts. Then it is only 25% of the size modulo the split size that is wasted. The advantages in fighting traffic analysis make it more than worth it. -- '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
