On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:03:07PM -0800, Aaron Voisine wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2000, Adam Langley wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:02:31AM -0800, Aaron Voisine wrote:
> > > Here's my idea for keyword searches. I volunteer to implement it.
> >
> > That's very nice of you, and please don't be put off - but you
> > utterly misunderstand much of Freenet.
> >
> > > Each node keeps an index of the ksk's it has in it's data store.
> When
> it =
> > > receives a Request.Search
> >
> > KSKs are binary by the time they hit a node.
>
> Thanks for being patient with me. I'm learning quick. I must have
> missed that part in the documentation. I thought KSK's were
> retrieved as is and the resulting document was a pointer to a CHK.
> It definately makes more sense from a deniablity standpoint to
> use a dropthrough encryption algorithm on the KSK first.
>
> As far as being a broadcast, I understand that's bad, but I
> figured with caching and low hops to live, it would be no worse
> than any other data request.
Broadcasts are inherently nonscalable. IIRC, a broadcast would be
somewhere around complexity O(2^n), which is REALLY REALLY BAD. Which
explains why GnutellaNet is completely falling apart at the moment.
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