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mchahn on Feb 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: RFC 6920: Naming Things with Hashes

This seems like a very useful concept. Are there any plans to implement it?

2bitencryption on Feb 21, 2016 [–]

Unless I misunderstand what this is for, a similar concept is already used for trackerless bittorrent using magnet links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme

It's not the exact same specification, but I imagine these two concepts are similar?

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