Re: Re: Speeding up Tree Verification

On 6/29/20 7:15 PM, Sid Spry wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020, at 9:13 PM, Sid Spry wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have some runnable pseudocode outlining a faster tree verification algorithm.
> 
> Ah, right. It's worth noting that even faster than this algorithm is simply verifying
> a .tar.xz. Is that totally off the table? I realize it doesn't fit every usecase, but it
> seems to be faster in both sync and verification time.

We've already got support for that with sync-type = webrsync. However, I
imagine sync-type = git is even better. All of the types are covered here:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_Security
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Thanks,
Zac