On 19/07/10 21:55, Matthew Toseland wrote: > The fundamental problem has always been spam: These are effectively KSKs, and > when you fetch them you propagate all the spam that the spammer has inserted. > > So solve it the same way we solve this for chat. All we have to do to make > FASD feasible is: > - Make the items signed. > - Send a compressed list of the inserter identities we are interested in > along with the request.
Maybe we could do something even simpler than that. Each indexer publishes her index in the form USK at blah,blah/index/123/keyword. Retrieve only the keywords you're interested in, from only the indexers you trust. Cheers, Michael