On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:36:38AM +0200, Christian Biere wrote: > Alex wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:25:27AM +0200, Christian Biere wrote: > > > Alex wrote: > > We could default to TLS and only fall back if that fails (maybe gated > > by config switch?). > > Yes, that could be done.
Cool. I shall have to break out the src tree and have a poke about. > > I assume from a health point of few the entire > > query network should be encrypted within the next year or so? > > No, not the entire network. People will be using deprecated software > for years, decades, centuries and millennia as they always do. I don't > think you would lose a noteworthy amount of peers if you restricted > connections to those capable of encryption. True but I would of thought this is a case of moving things on by policy (much like GTKG does with old CVS builds). > > > The fall back option is not very sensible, but a fall forward toward TLS > > > might be useful. > > > Ok, although at that point won't DPI of already figured out whats > > going on? > > Maybe. > > > > I'm not aware of any proposals with respect to encryption but there is > > > certainly room for improvements with the current implementation. I don't > > > think gtk-gnutella makes use of session resuming (unless GNUTLS does it > > > transparently) which would reduce some overhead at the price of a bit > > > memory. > > > I assume this is a cost when the servant gets the next chunk of a > > multipart file? > > Not necessarily. Normally connections are persistent. It simply applies > to every connect after a previous successful connection attempt. Download > requests are certainly the most-likely case. OK, that would require some reading about the guts of GNU TLS. > > > Also the "https:" URL scheme isn't supported as of yet which > > > also means that magnet-links do not indicate support for encryption. > > > I don't understand. > > Then read upon it. > > > I thought magnet links where a pure content > > identifier rather than what hosts had it? > > A magnet provides information about a file including optionally one > or more URLs. Ahh, the wikipedia article let me down in summary. Are we talking about the "mt" tag here? The spec I can see is quite old (v0.1 2002) and doesn't give many examples. -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ "I keep seeing spots in front of my eyes." "Did you ever see a doctor?" "No, just spots." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list gtk-gnutella-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel