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Jeffrey Paul 2021-01-18 23:52:58 +00:00
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@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ The manifest file would do several important things:
* provide an inner signed container, so that the manifest file itself can embed a signature and a public key alongside in a single file * provide an inner signed container, so that the manifest file itself can embed a signature and a public key alongside in a single file
* contain a list of files, each with a relative path to the manifest * contain a list of files, each with a relative path to the manifest
* contain manifest timestamp * contain manifest timestamp
* contain mtime information for files so that file metadata can be preserved * contain ctime/mtime information for files so that file metadata can be preserved
* contain cryptographic checksums in several different formats for each file * contain cryptographic checksums in several different algorithms for each file
* probably encoded with multihash to indicate algo + hash * probably encoded with multihash to indicate algo + hash
* sha256 at the minimum * sha256 at the minimum
* would be nice to include an IPFS/IPLD CIDv1 root hash for each file, which likely involves doing an ipfs file object chunking * would be nice to include an IPFS/IPLD CIDv1 root hash for each file, which likely involves doing an ipfs file object chunking