thus spake Simon Schlachter on Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:10 AM: > hi everyone > > i am a computer science student and am currently trying to implement a > razor2-client in java.
neat! > since there is almost no documentation i'm > trying to reverse engineer the whole thing. there's some documentation on razor.sf.net and I found this as well: http://www.stearns.org/razor-caching-proxy/razor2-protocol > there are two questions i > can't answer by reading the source code: > > (1) is it necessary that every client and every catalogue server > choose the exactly same parts of a message for hashing? the fact that > the server supplies a seed for the random number generator leads me > to this assumption. yes, there needs to be some agreement on what part of the message the hash is based on or the hashes won't match. > (2) if (1) is true, why do you use perls random number generator > (which could be different on every client) for this purpose, instead > of including an own one in your source code, making razor independent > from the rng of the system it is running on. (as a matter of fact, > you get different random numbers if you run razor on linux vs if you > run it on windows) perl normally uses drand48() for rand which is well defined and [I'm assuming] behaves the same on all platforms. this can be overridden during perl configuration, however. > (3) what are signatures v5 and higher that are used by spamnet? are > they documented anywhere or are they kind of "secret" since they only > appear in spamnet, not in razor? they are proprietary. -- j u l e s @ p o p m o n k e y . c o m http://www.popmonkey.com I've stopped 301,515 spam messages. You can too! One month FREE spam protection at http://www.cloudmark.com/spamnetsig/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
