On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Michael Rogers <m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > Evan Daniel wrote: >>> They only request the successful one, so the squatted ones fall out of >>> the network. >> >> In which case, the KSK isn't actually the SHA of the final data... > > Right - it's the SHA1 of the data stored under the KSK. The data stored > under the KSK is the key of a redirect to the final data. The inserter > can make any number of redirects to the same data, and therefore any > number of distict KSKs, until one of them inserts without a collision, > at which point the inserter has a KSK to give to the requester.
Then what's the benefit over using a short KSK, as I was suggesting? Evan Daniel