On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 07:29:35AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On June 18, 2003 01:22 am, Tom Kaitchuck wrote: > > On Monday 16 June 2003 08:25 pm, Toad wrote: > > I understand that changing the spec is a big deal. But if the routing > > estimation could be improved by knowing the filesize, and I can't think of > > any attacks biased on it, and the network overhead is virtually nothing ... > > Then maybe this is something that should be implemented or at least thought > > about, but not enabled. This way whenever the key spec does eventually > > change this could be added in without upsetting anything. > > What is planned for NG routing is to normalize the data size. In other words > we will ask how long will it take to get data of a constant size from a node, > and update the routing info with the normalized results.
Well, not a strictly fixed size. We calculate the average size from the datastore and use that, at run time. It should not drift quickly over time, so the measure is reusable. > > Ed Tomlinson -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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