[p2p-hackers] Error correcting
codes toprevent failurein BitTorrent like systems?
Arnaud Legout
Arnaud.Legout at sophia.inria.fr
Tue Dec 6 13:08:39 UTC 2005
Hi,
Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
> Why should retransmission solve the problem? If I'm behind a "mangling
> router", trying to download a file a piece of which has a 4-byte sequence
> that is mistaken by the router as an IP address that needs translation,
> every time I get that sequence the data will be corrupted.
>
I did not understand you were referencing to this kind of problem.
I was arguing for a random corruption of a given amount of packets.
Regards,
Arnaud.
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