On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:07:51PM -0500, Brandon wrote: > There is no expense in requesting an additional file if the files are > requested simultaneously, at least no expense worth mentioning. > > The benefits are: 1) the first inserter can't determine in a totalitarian > way what the metadata of a file is. 2) The network will not store multiple > copies of the same file with differing metadata (because metadata will be > in a different file). > > The first problem doesn't seem like a real practical problem (who's going > to use this attack and what purpose will it serve?) but still seems pretty > dumb and should probably be avoided.
Problem #1 won't exist in 0.4 anyway. -- # tavin cole # # "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, # a continual flight from wonder." # - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
