On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 12:17:22AM +0100, George Hicken wrote:
> I am having trouble finding info on where and how Metadata  is stored.
> Metadata as in the Dublin Core metadata, not the freenet specific stuff,
> like SplitFile. Is the metadata in the encrypted part of the doc (doesn't
> seem to make much sense) or stored elsewhere (doesn't this compromise the
> plausible deniability that was achieved for the node operators by encrypting
> the docs in the first place), etc.

Don't you think you are contradicting yourself when you first say it
makes no sense to encrypt the metadata, and then give the reason why it
makes sense in the next sentence?

> Same problem for storable headers. There is some mention of them in the
> how freenet works doc, but nothing useful if you don't know anything about
> them already.

Storable headers include the information necessary to decrypt and verify
the data. They are strictly defined, and not of any use anybody except
FNP implementations.

> These are extremely basic topics, but as I said, there doesn't appear to
> be anything other than passing references in the docs on the site.
>
> If anyone knows of any docs on this that would be great.
> 
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