* Ken Snider <ksnider at flarn.com> [2006-07-11 13:11:45]:

> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> >That's called "update over mandatory". There are two complications:
> >1. We must be able to verify the signature on the update. We don't trust
> >our peers *THAT* much that we'd deploy unsigned code from them!
> >2. We must determine whether the revocation key has been blown. This
> >means we must get a majority or universal verdict from a number of our
> >peers on this fact.
> 
> Can both of these not be solved with PKI? Simply signing the build with a 
> key under Freenet's control would solve the trust issue, and be verifiable 
> on a client independent of any network activity, yes?
> 
> --Ken.
SSKs are already using pubkey encryption ... the problem is that we
can't verify it without metadatas...

and atm we don't have a "binary blob" exchangeable at DMT level

NextGen$
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