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Great idea! I think the idea of building distributed systems using cryptographic hashes to navigate the universe of available code (and other information) is ve
by mycroftiv 16y ago
Great idea! I think the idea of building distributed systems using cryptographic hashes to navigate the universe of available code (and other information) is very powerful. I've spent some time prototyping systems with a similar concept using the sha1 indexed Venti deduplicative data server created for Plan 9. One challenge for the acceptance of such systems is building a web of trust so that a given hash-referenced object can be relied upon to do what it is described as doing.
- ay 16y agoThanks a lot! My thinking was that it would be the same as now we rely on e.g. jquery website that the code is working as advertized. The key in my case is that the code is available in the form ready for inspection - so that rather just trust, one can verify. Another application of this would be to take the backend redis data file and use it as an "image" (somewhat similar to Lisp/Smalltalk approach). The biggest problem I thought of would be the pollution of the "start" page and the management of the links between as well as hiding the unused files from navigation. That's still an area for experimentation.