(03:20:56) lusha: infinity, ["]Another interesting area for filesharing is a distributed, WoT-based way to download data by conventional hashes rather than CHKs, which could tie in with other networks; this is also related to the wierd stuff (backups) at the bottom.. "what's the conventional hashes referring to? DHT?"
some filesharing protocols (eg. DC++) let you retrieve files by their overall hash, which can be quicker than keyword search, because it's an exact-match search. eg. linux ISOs often have their md5sums distributed too, so if you know that md5 then you can do a search for that, and know that it's the exact ISO you want. it also means you can automatically verify the file afterwards. this isn't high priority though, but it would be a nice feature to have in the future. to do it cleanly it also needs some support in the client end (iirc there are proposed changes to the manifest[1] format, which includes this), so i wouldn't worry about this feature yet. X [1] manifests are a way of implementing "directory" structures in freenet, amongst other things; wiki has more details i think
