Opened at 2007-07-12T18:21:19Z
Last modified at 2016-04-02T20:17:08Z
#84 closed enhancement
allow introducer to provide default encoding parameters (k-of-n) — at Initial Version
Reported by: | warner | Owned by: | somebody |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | 0.5.0 |
Component: | code | Version: | 0.4.0 |
Keywords: | encoding | Cc: | |
Launchpad Bug: |
Description
For small+centrally-managed grids, the admin of the introducer should be able to recommend the values for k and n (as in k-of-n encoding). The value of 'n' should be set to be about the maximum number of peers in the network, since there's no point in producing more shares than there are peers (unless you expect more peers to arrive in the future, and we need to write more code to take advantage of new peers without reencoding anyways). The value of 'k' should be set to achieve whatever reliability-vs-expansion goals you have in mind.
For small networks, we're thinking that 3-of-10 seems like a good idea.