On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:22:30PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:50:36AM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
> <>
> > So, it sounds like the way to go is to have a Storable.Client-data which
> > would be presumably a Base64 string-encoding of an encrypted byte array.
>
> Throwing data around in the Storables costs considerably more for the
> nodes then leaving the data as a unit. I'm not sure that the saved work at
> the client end is worth the extra work for every node.
Remember, we're getting rid of the Metadata-length storable, and if we use
#2 below we're replacing it with something 26-42 bytes in length before
padding.
> > Should it decrypt to a (alphabetized) FieldSet or to a binary structure?
> >
> > #1: decrypts to --
> > Metadata-length=<hex>
> > Symmetric-key=<hex>
> > End
> > #2: decrypts to --
> > <2 bytes crypto key length><crypto key><8 bytes metadata length>
> >
> > Either way we can pad it to a decent length by repeating some hash
> > function of the data.
>
> Remember, fields are limited to 1024 bytes in length...
42 < 1024 :)
Adam liked #2. Suppose we require it to be padded to a power of 2 of at
least 64 bytes.
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# tavin cole
#
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# a continual flight from wonder."
# - Albert Einstein
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