On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> 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's a > tradeoff. And so an overall checksum is important, just to verify that the > final result is correct.
Hmmm, if we need an overall checksum... - The server cannot stream data to the client because it has to wait until it has all of it. Even if our current implementation doesn't have this, having a protocol that allows streaming is high in my list. - Aren't we back to the 2-hashes-will-get-us-sued square? frankly, a hash collision that has the same content length and over the same syntax format (html/xml) is so rare as to be... well, not really something I would expect :-) cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
