[tahoe-dev] #466 state-of-the-patch

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

[following-up to my own post]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
>
> (I think this is an example of how "identity-oriented" thinking can
> make things harder -- if the client thinks that a server has a
> canonical identity, and it is going to use that identity for
> generating write enablers, verifying announcements, and other things,
> then the client thinks it has to do extra work to cross-verify those
> two identities. But in truth doing that work is not necessary to
> ensure that it never sends a write-enabler to the wrong server.)

This conversational aside is more for the benefit of list discussion
than directed at Brian in particular. Brian rarely makes this sort of
mistake. I think he's probably one of the people who taught me to
think more precisely by using authority-oriented rather than
identity-oriented analysis!

Regards,

Zooko