On Wednesday 12 December 2001 07:12 am, you wrote: > Hi. Attached is a spec I would like some comment on. Apologies for the > cross-post; it could form a basis for numerous EOF protocols, and it is > certainly relevant to freenet-tech.
Good idea. I had thought about using freenet for a reverse SHA-1 algorithm a while ago. An extremely good compression algorithm could hash the file, then send the hash. The reciever decompresses the file by looking the file up on freenet. Basically you could compress any size file to 20 bytes (plus meta information), although you still need to download the data :-) It is mostly good for compressing over other protocols, such as Email, Snail Mail, Usenet, HTTP, etc. Anyone want to look into making a Freenet file format for doing this? All this would have to do is recreate the actual data after looking up the key on freenet. Actually, something like this would encourage more people to use Freenet. If people start seeing theese 20 byte files that contian things like Linux or the latest Divx video but need Freenet to open them, then people would probably check out Freenet and find out how cool it is. Scott Young _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
