holepunchto/hypercore

Does hypercore support immutable drives?

casey opened this issue · 3 comments

casey commented

BitTorrent torrents are immutable. It would be nice if hypercore had similar functionality, to support similar use cases.

Yep, the authentication is actually pluggable so implicitly already supported, but will make it clearer in the readme

casey commented

Nice! What's the DHT key for an immutable drive? Just a hash of the content?

Hash of a hash of the content so you still have the capability