On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 06:37:17PM +0300, Mika Hirvonen wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Phil Marlowe wrote:
> 
> > I've said it before, and I'll say it again: there should be a router 
> > function between 0.3 and 0.4, so users of the previous protocol aren't 
> > orphaned.  Make it optional, so we're not obnoxious to 0.4 users.  But if 
> > any 0.4 user, out of the goodness of his heart, wants to route between 0.3 
> > and 0.4, he should be able to set a flag, that makes his node listen on two 
> > ports, one for each protocol, and route messages between the two.
> <disclaimer>
> I didn't find the 0.3 FNP specs, so I'm not sure whether this 
> is possible.
> </disclaimer>

It is not possible. While it would be possible (through hideous cludges)
to have nodes supporting both crypto and message layers, the data was
encoded differently, and, crucially, it routed differently based on the
same key values. There is no way to have a working networking consisting
of both versions.

-- 

Oskar Sandberg
oskar at freenetproject.org

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