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Self describing hashes - for future proofing
In writing [CID](https://github.com/ipld/cid) i wanted a way to expand a CID into a human readable log version, for development. So i wrote this: This means multihash needs an equivalent version....
In XML signatures and linked data, one would use a URI for a particular hash function, like `http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#md5` for the MD5 function, and the prefix `urn:md5:` to identify a byte...
Basically, a widely used hash function ( at least internally in software ) is SipHash, which needs a key to produce an output is an hash function that produces small...
Clarify in the spec that the length identifier is not about the digest length of the hash, but the length that is actually stored. This way you can store truncated...
As I've been working on the Rust implementation of Multihash, it came up that the identity hash currently doesn't specify any limits. From an optimization perspective (this is why it...
I would very much prefer to have the numbering of the hashes the same as in the [IANA registry](https://www.iana.org/assignments/named-information/named-information.xhtml). If there are some missing, it is easy to add them...
Like bcrypt for example where the output already includes the work factor: ``` $2a$10$... ```
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Self describing hashes - for future proofing