> It might be that as long as you provide exactly the same inputs > compression is deterministic across all platforms (at least for a > specific compressor, like gzip).
> Having the handle fixed at 160 bits also seems limiting. It ties the > entire archive format into exactly one hash. Agreed. I'd suggest to change things slightly: I will agree if you can send me texts which have the same zipped size and SHA1 checksums as 3 previous message bodies posted to this list in 2004 and which, when expanded, make sense in the original context of their thread yet change the meaning of the original message. -t _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
