[p2p-hackers] Re: Interoperable distribution networks, was Re: Identify "defective" nodes

Tue Feb 28 21:09:51 UTC 2006

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:04:53PM +0000, Michael Rogers wrote:
> There seem to be at least five ways to identify files: SHA1 of the 
> entire file, THEX root hash, MD4 hash of the entire file (ed2k), kzhash, 
> and BitTorrent infohash. It seems unlikely that any of these will go 
> away, so I guess interoperability will depend on apps supporting all 
> five methods, despite the overhead... or we could work on a new standard 
> and then everyone would have six methods to support. ;-)

No, just add all the methods to my magic Stitch library and it will
take care of everything.  Then they all need to be supported in only
one place. ;) 

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Daniel Stutzbach                           Computer Science Ph.D Student
http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr                     University of Oregon