- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 22:07:55 -0400
- To: Bohdan Andriyiv <bohdan.andriyiv@validbook.org>
- Cc: W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org>
On 08/13/2018 03:10 AM, Bohdan Andriyiv wrote: > Only, minor reservation, why it is called "multihash"? For me it > suggests that the value of multihash contains multiple hashes. I > would call it "unihash" (unified, universal hash). The name comes from Juan Benet and Protocol Labs... it's their baby... they named it. :) The multiformats series of specifications supports encoding "multiple types of things" in packed binary data in a deterministic way. The name makes a good bit of sense, IMHO... but again, that's a bit in the past... it's been called that for years and I don't think attempting to change it would go over well at this point. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: The State of W3C Web Payments in 2017 http://manu.sporny.org/2017/w3c-web-payments/
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