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Re: K-of-N information dispersal for Mixmaster
- To: mixminion-dev@freehaven.net
- Subject: Re: K-of-N information dispersal for Mixmaster
- From: Len Sassaman <rabbi@quickie.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:01:03 -0400
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On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, George Danezis wrote:
> The issue of how large messages are to be split, and how to make copies of
> messages for reliability reasons, is worth standardizing. Of course it is
> not a matter of concern for the mix nodes and therefore including it in
> the minion-spec would not be appropriate.
This is not true. The exit node must reassemble large messages that have
been split, and deliver the original message. (We don't want
non-anonymous recipients to be required to have any special
software.)
Therefore, this is a concern for the nodes, and should be defined in the
minion-spec.
--Len.