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| author | Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io> | 2022-07-13 11:42:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io> | 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +0200 |
| commit | 29c062537d37fc10997767edd3edb6af41f1fb00 (patch) | |
| tree | 04bb0ae91acddfc9c657cd0ecda28184f845b085 /doc/manual/src | |
| parent | 9cabba1fc35c4989b0e280c12a845adf0e300dab (diff) | |
hashes: truncate -> reduce, mention SHA-256
the longer SHA-256 hashes are not truncated, but in fact processed.
Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/architecture/store/path.md | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/architecture/store/path.md b/doc/manual/src/architecture/store/path.md index 9f47b877f..64bc4a522 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/architecture/store/path.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/architecture/store/path.md @@ -62,12 +62,13 @@ Store objects are therefore said to be either [input-addressed](#input-addressin ::: {.note} **Historical note**: The 20 byte restriction is because originally digests were [SHA-1][sha-1] hashes. -This is no longer true, but longer hashes and other information are still truncated to 20 bytes for compatibility. +Nix now uses [SHA-256][sha-256], and longer hashes are still reduced to 20 bytes for compatibility. ::: [digest]: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/digest#Noun [hash]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function [sha-1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1 +[sha-256]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-256 ### Reference scanning |