On Monday 11 August 2003 09:57 am, Some Guy wrote: > Ok, maybe someone has a good arguement why this type > of senerio is improbable. Does anyone have data to > suggest that something like this can/does happen? Is > there a way to gather this data? Perhaps I could > write some simple simulations based on the old code > from the freenet paper, where nodes have something > like "tastes". > > My fear is that learning based on keys could be > sidetracked by learning based on "taste". While there > might be advantages like collecting together > "like-minded" nodes, my guess is that if something > like this does happen it might hurt the routing. > > I hope my posts haven't been too pie in the sky > lately, I'd really like to help out with the routing; > it facinates (and frustrates) me. Since everything is hashed and encrypted up the wazoo, files on any given topic will be more or less evenly distributed throughout the keyspace, and there's no way for a node to tell what a file passing through it contains or is called. Or I could just be misunderstanding your whole argument. -- http://earth.prohosting.com/tqbay "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams Nick Tarleton - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PGP key available
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