Big hype on small worlds. (was Re: Dijjer and Freenet (RE: [p2p-hackers] clustering))

[Adam Back]

Hashing a public key prevents you choosing arbitrary hashes.

(Same as hashing any other document type... hash functions are
designed to be one-way.)

Adam

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 05:07:59PM +0100, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> Hashing a public key will work only if the key has to be signed by some 
> certificate authority, but that isn't desirable in most p2p scenarios.