[tahoe-dev] Choice of tree-hash

[Tony Arcieri]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:13 PM, James A. Donald <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:

> This presupposes an improbable degree of competence and industry on the
> part of law enforcement.
>

It also shows a willingness by the system author(s) (me!) to provide
solutions to their problems. I'm open to better suggestions! Sacrificing
deduplication in the case people don't wish to provide a convergence secret
is unacceptable to me.


> Indeed, we already had this debate.  Google and others proposed blocklists
> of files specifically identified by hash, law enforcement and copyright
> holders rejected blocklists of specific content as completely and totally
> unacceptable, indeed outrageous.  They want to block by category, rather
> than block exact specific files identified by hash.


*shrug* IMO that's their problem, not mine. There is absolutely no
technological solution to blocking "by category" in a system like the
Cryptosphere. A content ID-based blocklist is the best solution I can
personally think of. I'm open to better suggestions that don't involve
abandoning global deduplication

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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