Re: CHK/SSK

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab-S0/[email protected]> Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:32:44 +0200

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Hi Melvin,

When a request is sent, you request the blocks the key points
to. There’s a routing part and a decryption part.

See https://wiki.freenetproject.org/SSK#How_SSKs_work

“The SSK is made up of a hash of the public key, and the symmetric
key. The hash of the public key acts as the index to the data for
searching purposes. Also, the actual public key is stored with the
data. This is so that Freenet nodes can verify the signature when the
SSK file comes into their node, and also so that clients can verify the
signature when retrieving the file. The symmetric key is so that clients
can decrypt the file.”

Good luck with your project!
Arne

Melvin Mawhin writes:

> Hi,
> Im doing a paper for school on Freenet and i have a small question concerning the way files are requested. 
> When the request is sent to the Freenet network is the complete SSK/CHK sent? I dont imagine so because that would
> mean you send the decryption key too? I have been running through the code but it is difficult to read for a layman.
> Cheers for any help you might be able to offer. 
> KRMelvin Mawhin
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