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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon,  2 Feb 2009 18:39:55 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?
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> Depends on how you look at it. From the drive's perspective -- you're
> right. Nobody owns blocks. However, if a certain block happens
> to be part of a filesystems that uses this particular drive then
> the ownership can and will be tracked.

the problem comes in the fact that as far as venti is concerned, there
is no filesystem.  the heirarchy bits are done in libventi, so

> The proxy API will have to track the ownership. And it is very likely to
> be more hierarchy-oriented, than stand-alone blocks-oriented.

protecting your root notes boils down to a matter of protecting
your root scores, since we assume that 2^80 is big enough to
deter guessing.  i don't see how a proxy will add security.
could you explain what attack vector you're worried about?

i would think that the least secure part of this is the unencrypted
transmission.

- erik