Re: Semi-distributed searching (and maybe fully distributed too)

On 19/07/10 21:55, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> The fundamental problem has always been spam: These are effectively KSKs, and when you fetch them you propagate all the spam that the spammer has inserted.
> 
> So solve it the same way we solve this for chat. All we have to do to make FASD feasible is:
> - Make the items signed.
> - Send a compressed list of the inserter identities we are interested in along with the request.

Maybe we could do something even simpler than that. Each indexer
publishes her index in the form USK@blah,blah/index/123/keyword.
Retrieve only the keywords you're interested in, from only the indexers
you trust.

Cheers,
Michael