Re: [Freenet-dev] Fixing insert collision behaviour

[Ian Clarke]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 02:01:13AM -0500, Scott Gregory Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 12:48:34AM -0500, Scott Gregory Miller wrote:
> > > I'm worried about what happens when a reinsert just fails to hit all the
> > > data.  then you have two forms of the same SVK on Freenet.
> > Well, that will be the fault of the author, since they inserted both.
> > It doesn't strike me as a serious potential problem.
> You're forgetting that KSKs are SVKs too. Doesnt' have to be the same
> author.

Well, we need to assume that an insert finding a reference to some data,
but not finding the data, when the data *is* still in Freenet, is
sufficiently unlikely as to make this.... unlikely.

Ian.

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