On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 01:58:01PM -0400, Edward J. Huff wrote: > On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 13:34, Edward J. Huff wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 12:56, Mark J Roberts wrote: > > > If you entangle your file with my illegal document, which is later > > > suppressed, you have nobody to blame but yourself when your file > > > must be reinserted. It's sort of like announcing that you intend to > > > jump off a cliff unless I give you a million dollars. I have no > > > legal obligation to keep you from jumping. > > To amplify further, when you start inserting your illegal > document, what you insert is two new random files. Some time > later, you insert a formula for your document into a circulating > stream of formulas. Meanwhile, the random bits you inserted > may well be used in the formula for other documents.
"a circulating stream of formulas" ? What does this even mean? > > One of the files is actually random. The other is indistinguishable > from being random. No one can tell which is which. They can > only produce the document when combined with other files according > to a formula which includes encryption keys. Meanwhile, they > can produce other documents when used with other formulas. > > So suppression has to be aimed at the very small formula instead > of at the large random files. But distributing very small > files is a lot easier, and the big files can be routed efficiently > to specialized nodes. Redundant storage is accomplished by > storing the same file under different formulas, and it is > never necessary to store a particular file anywhere but > at its one specialized node. Loss of a node does not cause > loss of content (even though there is only one permanent copy > of any given file) because the content can be reconstructed > from many different sets of files. We already have redundant storage for the _same_ key... however there may be a possibility of effectively blocking a key, maybe, by installing blocks on a large fraction of nodes... > > > > > The idea is your illegal document would have been entangled > > with other legal documents. [...] > > -- Ed Huff > _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
