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On Friday 20 December 2002 04:25, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Hi.
>
> This is mostly a paranoia issue, but here goes anyway.
>
> I haven't got a freenet node running at the moment, so my observations are
> only immediately based on a google search (sorry, didn't have the time
> recently to keep my node running). Is there a public Freenet node around
> that I could use for testing?
>
> Here is what I have I have noticed. The Freenet's supposedly secure
> SSK keys (URLs) are 31 bytes long in the format that appears to be Base64
> encoded. That is fine. However, I have also noticed that the last 4
> entries seem to be repeated with conspicuous regularity. On sites
> referring to Freenet 0.3 the URLs seem to end with QAgE and in 0.4 with
> PAgM. I presume this is a "feature". This reduces the key size down to 28
> bytes.
<>
Those endings are just identifiers showing what version of Freenet the key is
for. The keys themselves are really crytographic hashes (SHA1 IIRC).
Nothing to worry about here.
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Timm Murray
GPG Key Fingerprint: 32E9 DBAF 8089 ECB7 696D 560B AA9B 9E29 C69C 7CB4
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I've finally learned what "upward compatible" means. It means we get to
keep all our old mistakes.
--Dennie van Tassel
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