Re: [GNUnet-developers] About collections

[Marcos D. Marado Torres]

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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Christian Grothoff wrote:

> > In possible future protocol change this could
> > be fixed somewhat if we had a special type of blocks
> > that has gnunetd readable, but immutable and
> > verifiable plaintext fields. With this, we
> > could put a collection serial number visible
> > to the nblock, and make gnunetd, when seeing
> > this type of block, retain only the newest
> > entry. As this is done for an advertisement,
> > I don't think it would bother to users to
> > find only the latest entry. Even if the sblock
> > chain would break, finding a new advertisement
> > would get the users back on track.
>
> Right.  But as you said, it could only be done by changing the protocol. For
> this version, my goal was to just introduce the idea (with a working but far
> from perfect implementation) and try to see if people would find it useful.

Since the protocol will break in 0.7, couldn't we have it implemented by then?

Mind Booster Noori

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