From fc690a70be6e8aaa120388180c4cc617e8498f53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Warner Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:14:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] dirnodes.txt: update docs a bit, we don't yet do choose-latest-version, just choose-any-version --- docs/dirnodes.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/dirnodes.txt b/docs/dirnodes.txt index 6d033a60..5aa3fbda 100644 --- a/docs/dirnodes.txt +++ b/docs/dirnodes.txt @@ -223,10 +223,10 @@ unavailable, but not corrupt it. A sufficient number of colluding storage servers can perform a rollback attack: replace all shares of the whole mutable file with an earlier version. -When retrieving the contents of a mutable file, the client queries more than -one server and uses the highest available version number. This insures that -one or two misbehaving storage servers cannot cause this rollback on their -own. +TODO: To prevent this, when retrieving the contents of a mutable file, the +client should query more servers than necessary and use the highest available +version number. This insures that one or two misbehaving storage servers +cannot cause this rollback on their own. === Improving the efficiency of dirnodes === -- 2.45.2