On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:58:05PM +0100, Dave Baker wrote: > Hi, > > I was in the process of looking at KSK mailsites for Freemail, and came a > cropper on the fact that redirects to USKs aren't possible. The way I was > going to do it was to just have the KSK redirect to the mailsite USK > edition -1, which makes things quite easy.
How do you verify that it is in fact a redirect to a USK? > > I can probably manage the patch to enable USK redirects, but the question is > do we want to? As the comments say, without them, all KSKs, SSKs and CHKs are > static, which may be a desirable property. Well, I don't know. There are two possible views, firstly that we shouldn't allow transparent redirect from a KSK, that we should return a permanent redirect like we do with USKs, and secondly that we should just have a flag to disable transparent redirection to USKs... Which is better? Both? Which should be default? > > Not having them doesn't make short, human readbale KSK Freemail addresses > impossible, it just means I'll have to use another mechanism - likely just > insert the USK (or at least the important bits) to the KSK and then go and > retrieve the USK manually. It just a bit more clumsy, but it will still work. > > Dave -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060801/36bde043/attachment.pgp>
