Re: [Gzz] Bummer

[Tuomas Lukka]

> Realization I just had: Of course, a distributed hashtable used with Gzz 
> should not only be able to store *peers* that host a given block (as in, 
> the peer hosting the block tells the DHT so), but also *regular HTTP 
> servers* (as in, a peer tells the DHT, "I know that block X/the body of 
> block X can be downloaded at URL Y).

AAAAAAAAAAAAGH! YES!

Absolutely. This puts things really nicely together.

> For files that cannot be deeply linked, we can still have a reference 
> saying, 'you can download that block if you go to this web page,' though 
> this would need to be coupled with some way to assert credibility, 
> otherwise you could confuse people by directing them to arbitrary pages.

That's true for the above as well; you could otherwise DDOS someone
by putting their server down for all blocks in the known universe.

        Tuomas