Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of FileId
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- 2007-04-26T22:39:43Z (18 years ago)
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v1 v2 1 The "file id" is a tagged hash of the plaintext of the file to be uploaded. It is used as the final end-to-end integrity check of the user's data, use to detect any problems in the entire processing chain: corrupted shares, broken erasure coding, the wrong decryption key.1 The "file id" is a TaggedHash of the plaintext of the file to be uploaded. It is used as the final end-to-end integrity check of the user's data, use to detect any problems in the entire processing chain: corrupted shares, broken erasure coding, the wrong decryption key. 2 2 3 3 Because it is a hash of the entire file, download-time verification cannot be completed until the entire file has been retrieved. For large files that are being streamed, this only provides an after-the-fact check: "sorry, but the data that you just finished downloading and viewing was corrupted".
