>From their statements on the p2p-hackers list, it is my understanding that the Bitzi authors plan to support multiple records for any piece of data, so that beyond there own "SHA1 hash" format, they would also be able to provide Freenet keys and other forms of UIDs. They seemed unconcerned by and understanding of the proliferation of different identifiers.
Because the data is encrypted, the only way to provide lookups of data on Freenet using any plaintext hash as the key would be to use the hash as a insecure KSK. This would mean that you could not verify the data until you had downloaded and decrypted all of it, and that the network would not be able react to the bad data. On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:30:48PM -0700, Patrick Oscar Boykin wrote: > This is shame that there can't be some bridging. See: > http://bitzi.com/developer/code > > I don't know if this has been discussed before, but bitzi provides > metadata lookup on files, including SHA1 hash. > > It would be really nice to be able to use bitzi to search for files, and > then locate them on freenet. > > There are already over 1 million files indexed on bitzi. > > From what I have seen here, interoperability in freenet has always been > a major concern. Why not with this issue? > > Okay, sorry, that last bit was a joke. Seriously, I am interested in > what people think about this approach for searching. I know there is > freegle, but since that is freenet specific, it seems like something > like bitzi (which will be useful also to the gnutella community who are > working on support for it) could be great. > > Oscar (not Oskar). > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:09:18PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > > No, it's not that simple. All SHA1s are not equal. For two identical > > pieces of data two end up with the same SHA1 based keys, then the entire > > format for the data must be exactly the same - all splitting, padding, > > encrypting, formatting, error checking, metadata etc etc must be > > strictly defined. Freenet CHKs will not match with SHA1 indentifiers > > generated by any other program. > > -- > boykin at pobox.com http://pobox.com/~boykin ICQ: 5118680 > Key fingerprint = 159A FA02 DF12 E72F B68F 5B2D C368 3BCA 36D7 CF28 -- Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, above all shadows rides the Sun beyond all towers strong and high, and the Stars forever dwell: beyond all mountains steep, I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell. (JRRT) Oskar Sandberg oskar at freenetproject.org _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
