Melvin Carvalho
2017-03-05 18:02:07 UTC
I've been looking lately at the excellent RFC 6920, Naming things with
hashes.
It allows you to systematically translate a hash into a URI, and as another
excellent feature, provides a standard for doing a "forward" lookup.
In particular, if you lookup, say
https://some-domain/.well-known/ni/sha-1/<hash>
It will return some information about that hash, which is really useful.
It could have a name, a description, the algorithm details, and hashtage
etc.
This leads to a question / problem. Let's say I have a tag, and I want to
find a list of hashes that contain that tag.
Does anyone know of a systematic way to solve this problem?
I was thinking something like
https://some-domain/.well-known/lookup/<term>
Which would return a list of hashes.
Is this a solved problem, or does something need to be invented?
Thanks in advance
hashes.
It allows you to systematically translate a hash into a URI, and as another
excellent feature, provides a standard for doing a "forward" lookup.
In particular, if you lookup, say
https://some-domain/.well-known/ni/sha-1/<hash>
It will return some information about that hash, which is really useful.
It could have a name, a description, the algorithm details, and hashtage
etc.
This leads to a question / problem. Let's say I have a tag, and I want to
find a list of hashes that contain that tag.
Does anyone know of a systematic way to solve this problem?
I was thinking something like
https://some-domain/.well-known/lookup/<term>
Which would return a list of hashes.
Is this a solved problem, or does something need to be invented?
Thanks in advance