Re: [freenet-dev] SSK compatibility for infocalypse - was: What is the ideal size for SSKs?

2012-12-17 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2012, 23:51:01 schrieb Matthew Toseland: GenerateSSK will generate the current kind of SSKs. I.e. the new ones. We may give it some parameters in future though. The lengths of the SSKs may change. Sounds good. Thank you for the info! Best wishes, Arne -- Ein Würfel

Re: [freenet-dev] SSK compatibility for infocalypse - was: What is the ideal size for SSKs?

2012-11-21 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Monday 19 Nov 2012 23:05:44 postwall-free...@yahoo.de wrote: What will actually change for SSKs apart from the way they work internally? Will the SSK-Generator just spit out new keys with another new ending like the last time SSKs were changed internally, but everything will keep working

Re: [freenet-dev] SSK compatibility for infocalypse - was: What is the ideal size for SSKs?

2012-11-19 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Sonntag, 18. November 2012, 21:01:02 schrieb Matthew Toseland: On Sunday 18 Nov 2012 02:58:55 you wrote: Wait, we're not going to maintain backward compatibility with SSKs? That doesn't seem wise... Current proposal in a nutshell: - Support existing SSKs for back compatibility. - New

Re: [freenet-dev] SSK compatibility for infocalypse - was: What is the ideal size for SSKs?

2012-11-19 Thread postwall-freenet
What will actually change for SSKs apart from the way they work internally? Will the SSK-Generator just spit out new keys with another new ending like the last time SSKs were changed internally, but everything will keep working the same as usual, so same FCP-commands for retrieval and inserts

Re: [freenet-dev] SSK compatibility for infocalypse - was: What is the ideal size for SSKs?

2012-11-18 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sunday 18 Nov 2012 02:58:55 you wrote: Wait, we're not going to maintain backward compatibility with SSKs? That doesn't seem wise... Current proposal in a nutshell: - Support existing SSKs for back compatibility. - New ECC-based PSKs, programmable, allowing all sorts of things including

Re: [freenet-dev] SSK compatibility for infocalypse - was: What is the ideal size for SSKs?

2012-11-17 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Freitag, 16. November 2012, 17:26:34 schrieb Matthew Toseland: I might re-implement SSKs via PSKs, but the effect would be the same. Certainly we'd want to keep some kind of SSKs. The payload size might not be exactly the same though. Do you need a specific block size? Infocalypse is

[freenet-dev] SSK compatibility for infocalypse - was: What is the ideal size for SSKs?

2012-11-16 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Sorry for being late to the discussion. I just now realized this: Infocalypse uses SSKs for the top-level keys and I don’t feel competent to change it to use another type of key. So it would be extremely important for me to have a compatibility layer which allows infocalypse to use SSKs exactly

Re: [freenet-dev] SSK compatibility for infocalypse - was: What is the ideal size for SSKs?

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Friday 16 Nov 2012 14:20:35 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Sorry for being late to the discussion. I just now realized this: Infocalypse uses SSKs for the top-level keys and I don’t feel competent to change it to use another type of key. So it would be extremely important for me to have a