On Thu, 07 May 2009 21:54:34 -0400, Juiceman wrote: > Something as simple as "1111" or "2222" or "3333" would be enough to > change the hash of the CHK and would be a known value so we could recreate > the missing CHKs and reinsert them, yes?
Or just use numerical procession: "1", "2" ... "23", "24"... > ie we have a MHK at key1blahblah, key2blahblah, key3blahblah/somefilename.avi > (or CHK instead of MHK, whatever works) We are not able to find key1 or > key3, but we are able to retrieve key2 and successfully download the > entire file. Then as part of the FEC healing mechanism we can recreate > key1 and key3 just by taking key2 and changing the field from "2222" to > "1111" and another with "3333" and insert them back into the network. > Does this sound feasible? Yeah, it should work and be fairly trivial to implement.
