Re: [Help-gnunet] Case-sensitive search

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Wednesday 07 August 2002 02:08 pm, Christian Muellner wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Will there be an option for non-case-sensitive search? As default perhaps.
> Or am I blind and couldn't see it?

Case sensitivity in GNUnet is not optional. The only thing that you could
do about it is insert everything without caps and then other people would
find it when searching for stuff without caps. 

It is not possible that you specify 'ignore caps' when you do the search only, 
since the keywords are uses in the same way that passwords are used, that is, 
capitalization is important and increases the security (since it makes 
keywords harder to guess). For GNUnet, "foo" and "Foo" are two toally 
different searches with no resemblance at all. Using approximate searches 
without compromising security is an open research question.

Christian
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