On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 06:45:06PM +0000, Michael Rogers wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > >Who says the starting points need to downhill from you? They're random. > > When the packet is on its way to the starting point, "downhill" means > towards the starting point rather than towards the destination. Aren't > packets greedily routed to the starting point and then greedily routed > to the destination?
The starting point is a random node, not a random location. Ah, I see what you mean. Okay, so it would not be sensible to start at a random location. It would suck anyway (it'd be slow). > > >This may all be immaterial anyway; if it turns out we can't help but > >expose the network topology, we'll probably do premix for 0.7. > > Interesting - how will you distribute public keys? With the topology somehow, I dunno yet. > > Cheers, > Michael -- 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/20060318/59a4d595/attachment.pgp>
