On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Benjamin Coates wrote:

> >From "Mark J. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >I assumed you insert them like
> >
> >     InsertClient -createUpdate yes KSK@asdf
> >
> >which inserts a redirect like
> >
> >     Redirect
> >     increment=86400
> >     baseline=20000101000000
> >     End
> >     freenet:KSK@asdf
> >
> >which equals freenet:KSK@20001231000000-asdf. Now I see that if I add a
> >-redirect option that can redirect to a SSK instead.
> >
> >But I don't know if that's a good idea because we want the redirect to be
> >in the same SSK as the files so it can be securely linked to. Oskar, what
> >do you think? Should we ban inserting these under KSKs so there's a
> >guaranteed way to securely link to them? It would be very bad if everyone
> >inserted these directly under KSKs, which I think they will. Having an
> >extra redirect for people using the KSK (KSK@asdf -> SSK@blah/asdf ->
> >SSK@blah/20001231000000-asdf) wouldn't be terrible. And after the first
> >time the extra delay would be almost imperceptible.
> >
> 
> A problem with banning date-redirects in KSKs is that it would requrire the 
> SSKs private key to redirect into that SSK.  Being able to redirect into 
> someone else's SSK is useful functionality we probably don't want to forbid.

But why can't you redirect to their date-updating redirect in their
subspace? Like KSK@mylink -> SSK@yourssk/yourstuff ->
SSK@yourssk/20001231000000-yourstuff.

> But you're right, putting a date redirect to an SSK in a KSK is usually the 
> wrong thing to do.
> 
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