hallettj

Mostly from Josh Johnson

This seems like a restatement of X. We still don’t understand Y. I’m especially confused about:

• Why are SHA-256 and friends ok, but IPFS CIDs are not? They have basically the same functionality.
• Do you need a distributed network, or is a single server ok?

There was some hint that maybe you’re concerned about reproducibility for CIDs? If you fix the block size, hash algorithm, and content codec you’ll get consistent results. SHA-256 also breaks data into chunks of 64 bytes as it happens.

Anyway Wikipedia has a list of content-addressable store implementations. A couple that stand out to me are git and git-annex.