Re: [GNUnet-developers] GNUnet replication mechanism

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Monday 31 March 2003 10:23 am, eric haumant wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm testing the way gnunet replicate data over the network. I've installed
> 4 nodes and insterted a file. Without asking for anything, I saw gnunet
> starting to replicate the file. It's quite interesting, but how did he do
> this (the active migration needs a reply message to replicate data !!).
>
> Is gnunet generating reply messages (CHK_Result) itself without query ? How
> ?

Yes, it does. GNUnet can send content out to the network without a query. In 
fact, instead of padding with 1k noise, it can just send 1k random content. 
That is good because it doesn't cost any bandwidth and spreads the content 
around, making it harder to track where it came from. 

Christian
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