Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Wed Nov 19 20:47:54 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (bourbon.usc.edu [128.125.9.75]) by merlot.usc.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mAK4ls8R004850 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:47:54 -0800 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bourbon.usc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mAK4j5Vc014594 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:45:05 -0800 Message-Id: <200811200445.mAK4j5Vc014594@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: CS551_Final2_delete Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:45:05 -0800 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > I have a question about delete message below . > How is the password used since it was not stored anywhere in > metadata or anywhere else when doing a store or a probabilistic > storing/cacheing of a file. So, you must devise a way to store it! For example, you can use 1.password. > Is Nonce not sufficient to implement > a delete since I can push all Nonce's into a list whenever a node > initiates a store command and when it's time to delete, I just > check through the list to see if the nonce in the delete matches > any of the ones I already stored; if it does, I simply delete the > file and flood the message. Then other nodes in the network will be able to delete a file you've stored into the network. -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu