Re: [GNUnet-developers] gnunet-publish --disable-creation-time

[IC Rainbow]

On the matter of defaults...

`gnunet-arm -i rest` would enable world-writtable access to all REST
API endpoints. It could be changed ofc. But you'll have to know that
you should do that.

On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 4:02 AM Christian Grothoff
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 3/3/19 10:00 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> > Naomi Phillips transcribed 799 bytes:
> >> Might it be a good idea to make --disable-creation-time the default in
> >> gnunet-publish? If multiple people publish the same directory (e.g. by
> >> downloading and republishing), unless each one of them is careful to
> >> --disable-creation-time it will create multiple identical directories
> >> with different chks. This creates a mess of identical results in any
> >> keywords they share, as well as creates guesswork regarding which
> >> result(s) are usable should any of them become unavailable. As far as I
> >> can tell, it seems like making --disable-creation-time the default would
> >> have significant advantages with negligible drawbacks.
> >> --
> >> Naomi Phillips
>
> Yes, very good point. Our default should (almost) always be the safest /
> least information-leaky option, so I've now changed this in commit
> b8445cbf0a6d2b904de2c0a8e2458120256bfb59.
>
> > This would not affect updates as in "this version is newer than
> > the old one", right?
>
> Correct.
>
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