Re: Cascaded Rewriting

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:06 +0200, Stephan Menzel wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 12. April 2005 16:53 schrieb Mark:
> > When you re-code an existing SRS0 address, you essentially promote it to
> > an SRS1 address. This address can be reversed by srs_reverse. Whether you
> > can reverse the ensuing SRS0 address depends, of course, on whether you
> > signed it yourself (or have the key).
> 
> Well, I can safely assume that.
> 
> > The result of srs_reverse may be an SRS0 address itself. So, yes, if you
> > want to reverse that too, a second pass would be required. Since there is
> > no promoting SRS1 addresses to SRS2, etc, every reversal step should take
> > a two-pass maximum.
> 
> OK. So it'll be best If I always do two passes to cover all those cases.
> Thanks a lot!

You would do best to read the paper at
http://www.libsrs2.org/srs/srs.pdf, since this explains the how, the why
and the wherefore of multiple rewriting. You should not be doing
multiple passes unless you simply want to know the source address for
logging purposes. I suspect you might misunderstand something?

S.

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