[chord] about chord

[Emil Sit]

Linda,

On Mon, 17 October 2005 at 18:21 (+0800), livlovlev wrote:
>     bits (128bits and 160bits).  In my thesis for master,i just want
>     to give a key to a string of IP:Port,but the key need to be as
>     short as possible. Therefor,MD5 or SHA1 seem not proper.  I want
>     to know how do you use the key in the hash.Maybe this can give me
>     any suggestion.

You can use whatever key you like within your application and
then take the SHA-1 of that key as the actual key that you use
to establish rendezvous points or store/retrieve data using
Chord and DHash.

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Emil Sit / MIT CSAIL PDOS / http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/chord/