Re: Merkle, URLs, etc

Justin Cormack wrote:
> Olaf wrote: 
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>>Joseph Ashwood wrote:
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>>>Binary Merkle Trees: Are heavily flawed, and the only suggestion made to fix
>>>it was to send the grandchildren as well, which completely defeats the point
>>>of the child nodes, making the child nodes pure overhead, they serve no
>>>purpose except to enlarge the tranfer and raise the CPU time.
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>>A merkle tree with the same granularity as BT1 does have about the same 
>>overhead.
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> But then its basically equivalent to your get info hash extension... Or

You mean get_info/info?
No, it's not.

> any other scheme where the first thing you do is get a full hash tree...

No, because you do not get the entire tree up front.

> A pure hash-based scheme is quite nice, though whether it has real benefits 
> is less clear.
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