Opened at 2008-02-08T03:29:39Z

Last modified at 2009-11-03T00:33:53Z

#306 new task

Clean up code terminology: "SSK" vs "slot", etc

Reported by: warner Owned by: somebody
Priority: minor Milestone: undecided
Component: code Version: 0.7.0
Keywords: mutable newcaps docs Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description

split out from #207:

code terminology: share vs slot vs container, "SSK" vs mutable file vs slot. We need to nail down the meanings of some of these and clean up the code to match. Zooko thinks that the name "SSK" -- "Sub-Space Key" -- is not directly applicable to our mutable file URIs.

Some of these terms are embedded in hash tags, and may be difficult to change. It may be easiest to change them when we switch to DSA keys (#217).

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed at 2008-04-24T23:44:42Z by warner

  • Component changed from code-encoding to code-mutable

comment:2 Changed at 2008-06-01T20:57:31Z by warner

  • Milestone changed from eventually to undecided

comment:3 Changed at 2009-10-28T03:30:42Z by davidsarah

  • Keywords newcaps added

Tagging issues relevant to new cap protocol design.

comment:4 Changed at 2009-11-03T00:33:53Z by davidsarah

  • Component changed from code-mutable to code
  • Keywords docs added
  • Owner set to somebody
  • Summary changed from clean up mutable-file code terminology: "SSK" vs "slot", etc to Clean up code terminology: "SSK" vs "slot", etc

The immutable terminology needs clearing up as well. For example, CHKs are not really content-hash-keys: Tahoe uses "CHK" to refer to caps for both convergent and non-convergent immutable files (and directories when #607 is done); also, convergent encryption uses a secret to avoid guessing attacks, which is sufficiently different from Freenet CHKs that it should be called something else.

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