RE: [Blocks-development] Reducing broadcast messages to ~5bytes

[Spencer Jr., M. <sp...@ac...>]

Hmm...after thinking about this more closely...

it takes 4 bits to transmit one routing table hop.  A four-hop route would
take two bytes.

So if those two bytes are unique to the routing table, the other three bytes
would have to be unique to the file.

Can we reasonably assume that 3 bytes can identify all the files on the
network 'uniquely enough'?  Hash collisions will cause some files to inhibit
the spread of other files...

Perhaps the extra information, keys, signatures, ratings, whatever...could
be passed as separate messages.  "I have a new signature for that file you
already know about" "I have a new route for that file you already know
about"...


On an unrelated note, I would like to start creating and testing that
web-of-trust thing soon.  If there are any interested people out there who
would like to download, learn, and use the command-line GPG binary for their
favorite OS...and follow along in a HOWTO to use the web-of-trust, slowly
and by hand...please email me at m...@ms....  I'll need testers.  :)

--Michael Spencer
bl...@ms...


-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Moeller [mailto:mo...@sc...]
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 11:02 AM
To: blo...@li...
Subject: Re: [Blocks-development] Reducing broadcast messages to ~5bytes


On 18 Aug 2000, at 14:06, Blat Froop wrote:

> Comments?

Good idea, but remember that broadcasts will get more payload in the 
future (keys, digital signatures, nicknames, ratings). So the ID of 
the advert would have to be a hash of this additional data as well.

Regards,
Erik
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