From 7a17be153c3587e3e149ebd1fdcab630b17849f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: warner <>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:39:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [Imported from Trac: page VerifierId, version 1]

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+The "verifier id" is a tagged hash of the encrypted file to be uploaded.
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+It is used as an index to the [StorageServer](StorageServer) service on each peer. Each [StorageServer](StorageServer) holds zero or more shares for each file in objects called "buckets": the collection of these buckets is indexed by verifierid.
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+The same plaintext file can be encrypted in multiple ways (by changing the encryption key): each different resulting crypttext will have a different verifierid. As a result there is a one-to-many mapping from [FileId](FileId) to [VerifierId](VerifierId).