--- Some Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  --- pineapple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> > --- Nick Tarleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Maybe just XOR with a randomly chosen
> node-private
> > > value. But won't this fubar 
> > > routing and specialization, if each node has a
> > > different ordering in its 
> > > routing? Or do I misunderstand what is meant by
> > > "estimator keyspace"?
> > > -- 
> > 
> > Since the ordering of keys in the estimator
> keyspace
> > is completely arbitrary anyway the answer is no,
> but
> > with some caveats:
> 
> No, sorry pineapple this won't work.  Freenet's old
> routing required a closer(a,b,c)->boolean,
> which has to be globaly defined.  It can be defined
> serveral ways, you could break each key into
> two dimensions and take the "new york distance" or
> count the number of bits different.  For NGR
> you have to keep it in one dimension.  Reording the
> keyspace differently at every node would break
> the routing, since nobody could agree if a node is
> specailized in an area.

I fail to see how reording the estimator keyspace
would cause a routing problem.  Isn't the estimator
graph a "black box" that is not shared with the
outside world?  Why should it matter to a node how
another node implements it's estimators?

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