Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Sun Nov 23 09:07:28 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 mANH7SqY016884 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:07:28 -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 mANH5ZIk023693 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:05:35 -0800 Message-Id: <200811231705.mANH5ZIk023693@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: Query on Delete Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:05:35 -0800 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > I was just wondering the use of password for deleting a file. The > spec says, when we dont have a password for a particular file > then we should just generate one and flood the message. Here no > node will actually do anything as the nonce using this new > password will not match the nonce of the file. So we are just > wasting bandwidth when we can actually do a check at the node > where the delete command is called upon. > > Is there any significance for using the random password like > anonymity ? Please see my message (4th answer) with timestamp "Fri 14 Nov 13:02". -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu