Show HN: Hash Archive helps you verify the hashes of insecure downloads

Re:Show HN: Hash Archive helps you verify the hashes of inse... by btrask on Sunday June 05, 2016 @05:59PM (#11843367)

Thanks! Right now we're sort of in a chicken-and-egg situation where everything uses (mutable) URLs, so knowing the hash of a file isn't very useful. The Hash Archive is part of my strategy for promoting content addressing, to hopefully raise demand for systems like StrongLink (and others).

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Re:Show HN: Hash Archive helps you verify the hashes of inse... by tekacs on Sunday June 05, 2016 @06:02PM (#11843375)

The more people pushing for awareness the better! Hopefully with other work like IPFS (which you do reference), use of this approach for /more/ consumer systems is around the corner. :)

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Re:Show HN: Hash Archive helps you verify the hashes of inse... by btrask on Sunday June 05, 2016 @06:05PM (#11843385)

Yeah, IPFS is a big one. I plan on adding support for computing IPFS hashes to Hash Archive at some point too.

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