> Well, unfortunately, there really isn't an idea of backward compatibility > in crypto. If we switch ciphers, all that data is useless to clients that > don't support it. We might consider a metadata field that informs the > client which cipher was used when the data was inserted, since doing so > doesn't harm the security any.
Luckily, we'll probably add ciphers instead of changing them out. It will even encourage people to upgrade their clients. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
