sorry for barging in but can't this be avoided by either strict naming
conventions (i.e. the name.year.quality-team used by torrents, but really
enforcing it this time) and/or tags,
and allowing multiple hashes to point to the same files?

or "tag" hashes to point to the real hashes of the wanted file (thus
avoiding giving a single file multiple "valid" different hashes)

that way a name or a tag search could result in a list of (real names,
hashes) pairs and allow the search engine to be distributed as well.

I'm unaware of anything that is currently doing this, but i guess it must
be already used by few of the big DHTs.

my two Agorot,
- nir

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:36 PM, James A. Donald <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 2012-07-16 10:10 AM, Tony Arcieri wrote:
>
>> I'm hacking on this regularly enough I'd like to officially announce it
>> here:
>>
>> https://github.com/tarcieri/**cryptosphere<https://github.com/tarcieri/cryptosphere>
>>
>
>
> As I understand the design, immutable data is identified by two non human
> readable keys, one of which is more secret than the other.
>
> Ignoring the issue of secrecy for the moment, this is roughtly equivalent
> to bittorrent magnet link.
>
> But for bittorrent magnet links to be useful, and for immutable data to be
> useful, we need mutable widely available directories, such as pirate bay,
> directories that can be efficiently searched using human readable terms -
> directories that must be protected against spam, while allowing lots of
> people to add to them.
>
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