hal at finney.org wrote: > What happens if a malicious person starts inserting .listingNN files > which are incorrect? Say, all the files in the directory are deleted, > or have been changed to point to commercial spam? Any system which > allows everyone to perform updates could have this problem.
Right, for this to work you must digitally sign all this files, and some sort of mechanism is needed to make sure only people with the right private key can update '.approxrevision'. Since Update is part of the protocol that part needs to be dealt with when designing Update mechanisms. -- Itamar S.T. itamar at maxnm.com _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
