On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:15 AM, ianG <i...@iang.org> wrote:
> Easy.  Take the hash, then publish it.  The data can be secret, the hash
> need not be.

That works for git.  In particular what's nice about it is that you
get copies of the hash stored all over.

A similar approach can work for Tahoe-LAFS.  If the clients remember
the Merkle hash tree roots, you don't need to do any AE nor anything
else to authenticate the data.

Nico
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