On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:24:15AM +0100, Adam Langley wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:26:12AM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
> 
> > > The document is encrypted and interleaved with the progressive hash
> > > control bytes.  Its length must be a power of 2 _prior_ to the addition
> > > of the control bytes.
> 
> Since we're on the subject - can we dump the control bytes? A chunk
> system:
>  * Send 2 bytes of length of incomming data or 0 to signal
>  CB_RESTARTED
>  * Send that many bytes of data
> 
> Makes the checkering and stripping code simplier and so means that
> nodes don't have to pad to the end of a block when something goes
> wrong. All in all it would just be neater design unless someone has a
> great reason for control bytes which I'm missing.

Hrm.  I suppose that makes sense but gah, the amount of code to rewrite
in Fred would be pretty unpleasant.  It would certainly delay getting
0.4 out.. :(

> > Doh!  Since we're padding the document out to a power of 2 (presumably
> > with zeroes ??)
> 

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