On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 09:03:53PM -0500, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> writes: > > > > It may be possible, but it's quite undesirable to parse the CHK to > > > find the size. It's not sufficient that all chunks but the last be > > > full, because they could be different power-of-2 sizes. > > Huh? CHKs are power of two sizes. You can take the CHK URI and without > > fetching anything find out which power of two it is. And if all but the > > last CHK are required to be full and sans metadata, you know how big > > everything is and can reconstruct in situ. OTOH, it's pointless to > > reconstruct in situ because everyone should be using redundant splitfiles, > > which are more complex. If we are using rsplits, all the chunks will > > probably be the same size. > > okay, how do you get the size out of the URI? I was mistaken. We can get the verification part size, but this does not tell us the actual key size without making ridiculous client-dependant assumptions. > > Thelema > -- > E-mail: thelema314 at bigfoot.com Raabu and Piisu > GPG 1024D/36352AAB fpr:756D F615 B4F3 BFFC 02C7 84B7 D8D7 6ECE 3635 2AAB > >
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