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This might be a Poe's Law situation, but how am I supposed to reverse an arbitrary SHA256 hash without having that information stored somewhere? e.g. how do yo
by defen 10y ago
This might be a Poe's Law situation, but how am I supposed to reverse an arbitrary SHA256 hash without having that information stored somewhere?
e.g. how do you expect a client to turn "r0WGHoHvVmv4I51qW9FxCAIxX8NSfYlds1Pi-Of92ZI" into something useful?
- grey-area 10y agoSorry should't post jokes like this on the internet - I've moved 'more seriously' to the end to make it clearer.
- defen 10y agoI wanted to be sure you weren't describing a DHT for url shorteners ... a distributed content-addressable hashtable of shortened urls
- grey-area 10y agoI suppose the nice bit of this (original) proposal is that it works without any kind of connection or storage. You could use something like a blockchain to store this kind of thing, but you're still reliant on that existing in the future. Nice idea tho. You can also use hashing if you're the origin server (the idea behind content addressable stuff), and if you go away the data goes away anyway so it doesn't matter...