[LINK] Fixing Broken *External* Links

[Tom Koltai]

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> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Roger Clarke
> Sent: Sunday, 1 March 2009 9:01 AM
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: [LINK] Fixing Broken *External* Links
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> P2P networks use hashes of files as identifiers.
> 
> There's a huge amount of redundancy inside files, and there are 
> hashing algorithms that take advantage of that to (perfectly?  very 
> highly reliably?  highly reliably?) generate hashes without 
> collisions / duplicates.

Interestingly enough - Hash files are at 64 bits even more unique than
fingerprints. 

One of the reasons I praised the Federal Courts Practice note 17 so
highly recently.
They have elected to mandate(recomend) the use of Hash files to ferret
out "duplicates" in the discovery process.

Tom