Re: [freehaven-dev] how to retrieve fragments?

[Brian T Sniffen <brians@MIT.EDU>]

Joseph Sokol-Margolis <seph@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Is this really a problem? It just doesn't seem like one to me. 

If you can tell a checkup from a full request, you can answer checkups
and ignore requests.  Allowing either means that there will be people in
each of four categories:

Verifies fragments by asking for all fragments which match a PK
	and gets whole files in the same way. (1)
	and gets whole files by asking for individual frags by ID. (2)
Verifies fragments by asking for a fragment which matches a PK and has a specific ID
	and gets whole files in the same way (3)
	and gets whole files by asking for all frags which match a PK (4)

(4) is the most efficient, and the only reason I can think of to use
(2) is to play with people's heads, but all four are certanily viable
strategies.

-Brian