On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 10:46:23AM +0300, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote: > 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.
Why not just update the listing file? It would speed things up - remember that speed is not one of Freenet's good points. Of course, the listing file would have to be cryptographically authenticated. -- Travis Bemann Sendmail is still screwed up on my box. My email address is really bemann at execpc.com. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 1239 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20000529/d869a055/attachment.pgp>
