freenet

Josh josh@mercuryfs.net
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:29:26 -0700


Thank you, I appreciate the info.

Ted didn't claim to be the main guy, rather a contributing member who's been
involved in content based file handles for a long time.

Also, regarding intellectual property issues, I do not intend to try to
block freenet from evolving. My desire for the patent is to deal with
Microsoft. I have no problem with you guys.

Check out this link, Microsoft is trying for the third time on their file
system goal. The first was called OFS, in the early-mid 90's.  If I get my
way, I will be them to it. I've made the decision to focus on the NT
marketplace first, because of their lack of distributed file systems. Funny,
I intend to hire oracle to design the Microsoft SQL server version first !?
(I love it)
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2802585,00.html

This is going to be interesting...



 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Brandon Wiley [mailto:blanu@bozonics.com]
Sent:	Friday, August 10, 2001 6:14 PM
To:	Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems
Subject:	Re: freenet


> Ted Anderson (who I believe
> maintains this list) responded to an email of mine, and pointed out that
he
> played a major role in a freenet key type.

No, not really. Although he certainly was on the list for a while and was
on the side of content hashes. The major role played in the development of
the Freenet key types were Oskar Sandberg and myself, pulling in opposite
directions.

> >From what I read from the freenet web site (in May), the file name and
hash
> are used in the key, but the extension and size are not (they are with the
> mfs handle).

An extension is, by definition, part of the filename. Keys don't contain
the exact size of the file, but do contain a maximum size for the file
expressed in a fixed length logarithmic scale.

> would of pointed it out by now. Also, doesn't freenet only encrypt data
from
> point to point? From what I know (and it aint much), it doesn't permanent
> store data in encrypted format.

It does both.



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