Re: [Server-devel] Apache proxy CRCsync mozilla gsoc project?

2009-04-01 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 15:52:22 Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote: Well, 'strong' here is relative. In order to keep the checksum length finite and hence encode more blocks we only use a portion of the bits; it's

Re: [Server-devel] Apache proxy CRCsync mozilla gsoc project?

2009-04-01 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 11:11:23 tri...@samba.org wrote: The per-block rolling hash should also be randomly seeded as Martin mentioned. That way if the user does ask for the page again then the hashing will be different. You need to send that seed along with the request. Hi Tridge, I

Re: [Server-devel] Apache proxy CRCsync mozilla gsoc project?

2009-03-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 23:29:23 Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Toby Collett t...@plan9.net.nz wrote: There is no error checking in the encoding itself, this is assumed to be taken care in other layers, and we through in a strong hash on the whole file to make sure

[Server-devel] Apache proxy CRCsync mozilla gsoc project?

2009-03-23 Thread Rusty Russell
Hi, Tridge just cc'd me on on a GSOC rsync-http mozilla project; given that Martin is coordinating an apache proxy plugin, I thought I'd send a big inclusive mail to make sure we all know about each other! My involvement: a crcsync module in CCAN which can be used as a (simplified)