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Old April 15th, 2002
gnutellafan gnutellafan is offline
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No need for a central server. Who ever is hosting (sharing) the file keeps the whole file hash as well as as 1mb incremental hashes. These are stored just like the sha1 for HUGE. Then if I start a download fromyou I get that hash info. Now I can use it to search the gnet for the other parts, even if they are partial files, to swarm from.
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