Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of Ticket #954


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2013-12-27T23:48:24Z (11 years ago)
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zooko
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  • Ticket #954 – Description

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    1 As described in [/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-June/001995.html], the easiest kind of revocation to implement in a distributed, robust way is also the kind of revocation that I most urgently need: revoke the write-authority embodied in a specific cap.
     1As described in [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-June/001995.html], the easiest kind of revocation to implement in a distributed, robust way is also the kind of revocation that I most urgently need: revoke the write-authority embodied in a specific cap.
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    33The way to implement this is to define a special out-of-band symbol (i.e., something unambiguously distinct from file contents) which means "this file has been petrified". That would be a way to take a mutable file and turn it into a petrified file (formerly mutable but now immutable).