[guardian-dev] unique identifier for media files

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Mon Jul 11 10:39:51 EDT 2016



Greg Troxel:
> 
> Perhaps java-namespaced filename as if it were an app, appended with
> some sort of stable hash of data.  For the hash one could define a
> function that skips metadata, sort of like the hash you would get if you
> first made the media file be a reproducible build and then hashed it.
> 

We have to also consider files from other sources, so we can't force the
filename.  APKs have packageName and versionCode built-in, so they are
easy.

.hc


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