Naming Things with Hashes

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Standard
Pages: 23
Abstract: This document defines a set of ways to identify a thing (a digital object in this case) using the output from a hash function. It specifies a new URI scheme for this purpose, a way to map these to HTTP URLs, and binary and human-speakable formats for these names. The various formats are designed to support, but not require, a strong link to the referenced object, such that the referenced object may be authenticated to the same degree as the reference to it. The reason for this work is to standardise current uses of hash outputs in URLs and to support new information-centric applications and other uses of hash outputs in protocols.
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
Status Note: Proposed Standard
DOI: 10.17487/RFC6920
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6920
Author(s): Stephen Farrell
Dirk KUTSCHER
Christian Dannewitz
Börje Ohlman
Ari Keränen
Phillip Hallam-Baker
Keyword(s): Cryptography, URI, ICN

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Normative Reference(s)

ISO.7812-1.2006 — ISOIEC7812 EXTERNAL
NIST FIPS 180-3 [Withdrawn]
IETF RFC 2045 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2616 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2818 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3986 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 4395 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 4648 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5234 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 5280 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 5785 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 6838 [Active*]

Bibliographic Reference(s)

Jacobson, V., Smetters, D., Thornton, J., Plass, M., Briggs, N., and R. Braynard, "Networking Named Content", Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies (CoNEXT '09), December 2009. EXTERNAL
Wikipedia, "Magnet URI scheme", March 2013, < http://en.wikipedia.org/w/ index.php?title=Magnet_URI_scheme&oldid=546892719 >. EXTERNAL
Wikipedia, "Luhn mod N algorithm", September 2011, < http://en.wikipedia.org/w/ index.php?title=Luhn_mod_N_algorithm&oldid=449928878 >. EXTERNAL
Dannewitz, C., Kutscher, D., Ohlman, B., Farrell, S., Ahlgren, B., and M. Karl, "Network of Information (NetInf) - An information-centric networking architecture", Computer Communications, Volume 36, Issue 7, pages 721-735, ISSN 0140-3664, 1 April 2013, < http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/ S0140366413000364 >. EXTERNAL
Hallam-Baker, P., Stradling, R., Farrell, S., Kutscher, D., and B. Ohlman, "The Named Information (ni) URI Scheme: Optional Features", Work in Progress, June 2012. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 3766 [Active*]
RFC4773 — RFC4773 EXTERNAL
RFC4843 — RFC4843 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 5226 [Superseded*]
RFC5513 — RFC5513 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 6149 [Active*]
RFC6150 — RFC6150 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 6151 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6454 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6698 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6797 [Active*]

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