> I did find the code for doing keys a bit confusing - If all that's being
> used for keys are SHA1 hashes, why aren't they just byte arrays of length
> 20?

Only SHA1 hashes are being used, but in the protocol a key is just a
string. Our implementation just happens to convert everything into
160-bits before putting it in the network. But arbitrary-length strings
are supported in case of future upgrades in the size of the key space.



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