Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:14:50PM +0300, Constantine Dokolas wrote: >>You (and others) assume there is such a thing as a "part of the file". With >>FEC encoding there is no such thing. If you have enough blocks (2/3), you >>have the whole file; otherwise you have nothing. Matthew can correct me, if >>I'm mistaken. > > > No. You may have some of the plaintext blocks. And on any codec other > than onion, you may have enough check blocks to reconstruct some (rather > than all) of the plaintext blocks. Even with onion you can do a partial > decode - but we probably won't since a partial download of a block isn't > verified at all.
Very interesting indeed. Doc -- Theory asserts that although in theory there should be no difference between theory and practice, in practice there IS difference between theory and practice. Constantine Dokolas Sunsoft Ltd. Mimikos Group Tel: (+30) 210-931.7811 Fax: (+30) 210-932.1603
