From: "Lluís Batlle" <viriketo@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti and the hash / public key in plan9
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:55:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45219fb00602060955o4cf10e2et@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E78970.3020501@lanl.gov>
Haha :) Thanks. I got it.
It's hard for me to not to write code for handling those low-priority
cases. If the probability is such low, I understand. :)
on the other hand... is the block size (write/read block size) fixed
(to 8k?) in Venti?
I feel like I read somewhere in the Venti paper that that block size
is of length chooseable from the application.
(I'm not English native, so I hardly would say that I understand
clearly an explanation in English. :)
2006/2/6, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>:
> uriel@cat-v.org wrote:
>
> > I think I heard someone quote Rob as saying something like: "lower
> > than the probability that all the atoms in one half of the universe
> > would get up all at the same time and move to the other side of the
> > universe"
>
> right, but lest we lose track, don't forget the importance of the hash
> you pick. You could pick one with considerably higher probability.
>
> Here's one: odd parity.
>
> Of course, calling that a 'hash' is probably not justifiable :-)
>
> ron
>
> p.s. Of course, believers in homeopathy might not believe in Venti, not
> sure.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-06 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-06 16:36 Lluís Batlle
2006-02-06 16:58 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-06 17:16 ` Lluís Batlle
2006-02-06 17:21 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-02-06 17:33 ` uriel
2006-02-06 17:37 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-06 17:55 ` Lluís Batlle [this message]
2006-02-06 19:45 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-06 17:51 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-06 19:49 ` Joel Salomon
2006-02-06 17:25 ` Ronald G Minnich
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