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Re:Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat applic... by fiatjaf on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:36AM (#12733303)
The name is misleading, you must concede.
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Re:Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat applic... by computerphage on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @06:28PM (#12748258)
What?

The name of a piece of data is cryptographically secure. It is permanent, but the data that is being named doesn't have to continue to exist on a hard drive just because its name exists.

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