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From: Christian Grothoff <grothoff@in.tum.de>
Subject: Re: [GNUnet-developers] Using GNUnet for binary package distribution
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:57:35 +0100
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To: =?UTF-8?B?THVkb3ZpYyBDb3VydMOocw==?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: gnunet-developers@gnu.org, Sree Harsha Totakura <totakura@in.tum.de>, bug-guix@gnu.org

On 03/22/2013 01:25 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sree Harsha Totakura<totakura@in.tum.de>  skribis:
>
>> For authentication, we intend to use GPG with gnunet-update.  The idea
>> is that the gnunet-updater would search for updates using GNUnet's Fil=
e
>> Sharing service and downloads meta-data files.  It then verifies if th=
e
>> meta-data files are signed by a trusted key (which is user-configurabl=
e)
>> and proceeds with the download of actual binaries.
>
> OK.  Wouldn=E2=80=99t using the AFS service be a bottleneck, in terms o=
f
> availability and bandwidth?  My impression is that it might be OK for
> small updates like those of GNUnet itself, but not for a full distro.

We won't be using the *anonymous* file-sharing for this.

> For Guix, downloading binaries is an option that is only worthwhile if
> it=E2=80=99s faster than building locally.

Of course.

-Christian