Re: hash-based requests

> 
> 
> Justin Cormack wrote:
> > 
> > Have been thinking about the idea of making all requests and have messages
> > refer to hashes rather than block offsets.
> > 
> > It all works pretty well except that at the beginning when you only have the
> > root hash, you can be sent a have message for a block you know nothing about
> > because you dont yet have the tree (you dont even know which torrent it is
> > from yet). Has anyone thought of a solution to this yet? You could store them
> 
> Doesn't that happen more often then just the beginning?
> For example, if I don't have a subtree yet.

Yes, just was thinking of it from the start.
 
> > but this gives a potential DoS by just making up random numbers and saying you
> > have those pieces.
> > 
> > The other alternative is a two-phase protocol where you first obtain the Merkle
> > tree before you can do anything else.
> > 
> > Or is there some better way?
> 


 
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