On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:39:54AM -0700, Scruple Scruple wrote: > > > I said it would be inserted as a one-file manifest: the filename is > > effectively in the metadata. If you change the filename you change the > > manifest and therefore change the CHK. > > This is a horrible idea. It will lead to redundant duplication of content if > someone happens to insert the same exact thing but simply under a different > name. Or wants to rename a file and has to reinsert it and duplicate it > again.
That isn't true either. There is very little duplication if two people insert it with different files: only of the manifest, and I think only of the top block at that. So you waste one block. > > If some fool is maliciously renaming keys then here's the solution: do not > download from them or that freesite anymore. I think having the users use a > little common sense is preferential to taking programer time (away from other > tasks, e.g. open-net) to hard code a hack. The renaming keys thing is incidental. The real reason I want this is to make it easy to compare keys for caching. > > Scruple -- 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/20060821/fdc7b1db/attachment.pgp>
