Rabin fingerprinting is not currently used
bnewbold opened this issue · 1 comments
bnewbold commented
This seems to cause frequent confusion. Eg, here's recent stackoverflow post:
I think "How Dat Works" should be updated, but I don't have a patch at this time.
Frando commented
Also, under "How is Dat different than IPFS?", it says:
IPFS and Dat share a number of underlying similarities but address different problems. Both deduplicate content-addressed pieces of data and have a mechanism for searching for peers who have a specific piece of data.
This should be reworded, as it is not true. Dat does not currently deduplicate data, and is not content-addressed, and does not really have a "mechanism for searching for peers who have a specific piece of data".