Re: [Hipsec-rg] Some comments on draft-ahrenholz-hiprg-dht-01

From: Henderson, Thomas R <thomas.r.henderson(at)boeing.com>
Date: Fri Aug 10 2007 - 02:23:15 EDT

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miika Komu [mailto:miika@iki.fi]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:45 PM
> To: Henderson, Thomas R
> Cc: Ahrenholz, Jeffrey M; hipsec-rg@listserv.cybertrust.com
> Subject: Re: [Hipsec-rg] Some comments on draft-ahrenholz-hiprg-dht-01
>
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Henderson, Thomas R wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Two other items I think are important to resolve are the
> technique to
> > avoid all of the HITs from being stored on the same server
> due to the
> > ORCHID prefix (this is mentioned in Jeff's draft but not really
> > defined), and server robustness issues.
>
> why not just reverse the order of bits or bytes in the HIT?
> Maybe this was
> discussed earlier.

HITs are hard enough to read forward, but backward? (this seems suboptimal from an operations and debugging perspective).

How about truncating the ORCHID prefix and using the Encode_100 (or lower 96 bits thereof)?

Tom

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