From: Brian Warner Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:14:51 +0000 (-0700) Subject: docs/mutable.txt: we need readkey IV X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-0.7.0~349 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/components/com_hotproperty/%22doc.html/index.php?a=commitdiff_plain;h=64f7183157669b0d898350ccb218d7f157246dd8;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git docs/mutable.txt: we need readkey IV --- diff --git a/docs/mutable.txt b/docs/mutable.txt index 82b38b7d..845f88b9 100644 --- a/docs/mutable.txt +++ b/docs/mutable.txt @@ -484,10 +484,12 @@ provides explicit support for revision identifiers and branching. == TODO == +add IV, use it by hashing the long-term readkey with the IV to generate the +per-version readkey. improve allocate-and-write or get-writer-buckets API to allow one-call (or maybe two-call) updates. The challenge is in figuring out which shares are on -which machines. +which machines. First cut will have lots of round trips. (eventually) define behavior when seqnum wraps. At the very least make sure it can't cause a security problem. "the slot is worn out" is acceptable.