[chord] hashed key

[Frank Dabek]

Yanyan Wang wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I know that I need to retrieve data from Chord network using its key. Is it easy
> for me to calculate a file's hashed key outside Chord system? For example, I
> insert a file "file0", then I wish to retrieve it. Is the key for "file0"
> easily computable before I actually insert it and get it from the Chord
> execution? Thanks!
> 
> Yours,
> Yanyan :)
> 
> 

Yanyan,

	Blocks in Chord are usually stored under the hash of their contents. It 
is easy to compute this key prior to storing a block by computing the hash.

--Frank