[tahoe-dev] Choice of tree-hash

[Tony Arcieri]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:02 AM, CodesInChaos <codesinchaos at gmail.com>wrote:

> This hash doesn't only detect bugs. It identifies the file. So you can
> easily see that a file stored on tahoe is the same one as a file
> stored on cryptosphere. (Obviously assuming knownledge of read caps)


Why not use a hash (tree) of the ciphertext for this purpose? I suppose
encrypting the hash of the plaintext accomplishes the same thing...

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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