On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 07:58:17AM +1100, Revenant wrote: > Ian Clarke wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:34:32PM +0100, LAci wrote: > > > The system should provide a feature to verify keys without > > > actually downloading the data. This would be good also so that > > > verification of keys wouldn't create extra traffic and false > > > demand for keys. > > We can't do this, since it would allow people to launch DOS > > attacks on nodes hosting particular keys. > > Ian. > IIRC, GJ has already written software to do this - he uses it to > create his "validated URI list". If people want to DOS certain > content there's nothing that can stop them doing what he does - > requesting data then cutting off the download once you start > receiving.
AFAIK even if a download is aborted, the data will continue to be cached at intermediate nodes. If this isn't the case, it is a bug. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010226/0f219c6f/attachment.pgp>
