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Update storage space overhead
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gammazero committed Mar 19, 2024
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* **Extra compute**. At minimum, Clients must perform an extra hash computation per CID and decryption per `ProviderRecordKey` that will add
some overhead to each lookup.

* **Extra storage space**. Storing encrypted data will require more space due to padding and nonce;
* **Extra storage space**. Storing encrypted data will require more space due to padding, nonce, and the addition of an encrypted provider key per multihash;

* **Bulk deletes**. Encrypted `PeerID` will be different for each multihash and hence bulk delete operations (delete everything for a provider X) will not be possible. Such deletion will require a garbage collection mechanism that rereads deleted advertisements and deletes the HASH2 for all multihashes.

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