I don't see anything that would prohibit sliding windows? Then again, I don't see it mentioned particularly. Would probably not hurt to mention it explicitly. Perhaps some text in section 4.2.5, in conjunction with discussion of First Message Number? Similarly, in section 7.1, when describing the algorithm, can include something along the line that we need to maintain a cursor, indicating the highest message number that was processed so far, and if the subsequent Signature Block message has a smaller FMN, we "skip forward" accordingly.
--- Alex -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Syslog] Syslog-sign: Overlapping signature blocks Jon Callas wrote: > Overlap of sliding windows is a feature, not a bug. If anything, we > should reverse the polarity on your comment and more explicitly > mention its utility. I asked about this because some parts of the draft need small changes if overlapping sliding windows are allowed (and I agree that they could be useful). In particular, Sections 7.1 and 7.2 seem to assume no overlap. Best regards, Pasi _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog
