Re: [Server-devel] Apache proxy CRCsync & mozilla gsoc project?

2009-04-01 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 19:40:37 Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Yes, we need to chunk, because we can't hand the data on to the client until > > we've verified it, at least in a serious implementation. > > Hmmm.

Re: [Server-devel] Apache proxy CRCsync & mozilla gsoc project?

2009-03-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 11:11:23 tri...@samba.org wrote: > The per-block rolling hash should also be randomly seeded as Martin > mentioned. That way if the user does ask for the page again then the > hashing will be different. You need to send that seed along with the > request. Hi Tridge,

Re: [Server-devel] Apache proxy CRCsync & mozilla gsoc project?

2009-03-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 15:52:22 Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Well, 'strong' here is relative. In order to keep the checksum length > > finite and hence encode more blocks we only use a portion of the bits; it&#

Re: [Server-devel] Apache proxy CRCsync & mozilla gsoc project?

2009-03-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 23:29:23 Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Toby Collett wrote: > > There is no error checking in the encoding itself, this is assumed to be > > taken care in other layers, and we through in a strong hash on the whole > > file to make sure this is co

[Server-devel] Apache proxy CRCsync & mozilla gsoc project?

2009-03-23 Thread Rusty Russell
Hi, Tridge just cc'd me on on a GSOC rsync-http mozilla project; given that Martin is coordinating an apache proxy plugin, I thought I'd send a big inclusive mail to make sure we all know about each other! My involvement: a crcsync module in CCAN which can be used as a (simplified) librsy