Re: "tiny" keys for freenet

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Michael Rogers <m.rogers-kecf2yCh/[email protected]> wrote:
> Evan Daniel wrote:
>>> They only request the successful one, so the squatted ones fall out of
>>> the network.
>>
>> In which case, the KSK isn't actually the SHA of the final data...
>
> Right - it's the SHA1 of the data stored under the KSK. The data stored
> under the KSK is the key of a redirect to the final data. The inserter
> can make any number of redirects to the same data, and therefore any
> number of distict KSKs, until one of them inserts without a collision,
> at which point the inserter has a KSK to give to the requester.

Then what's the benefit over using a short KSK, as I was suggesting?

Evan Daniel