
Episode 538: Roberto Di Cosmo on Archiving Public Software at Massive Scale
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Using Cryptographic Checksums to Identify the Status of a Project
With the chemical engineering or chemical sector example and music, there is a third party standard that's been agreed. Which is kind of like a register. Well, it's more difficult to corrupt or to lose. Once you have a tiny standard you agree upon and that's okay, then everybody agrees. While with the register, a whole maintains a register, who has control on the register? And also the register is not going to be public, whereas the way to interpret the intrinsic ID and that data will be public because it's a standard. So it's more protected. Thank you.
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