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whitespace #5

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arjunv27 opened this issue May 19, 2019 · 1 comment
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whitespace #5

arjunv27 opened this issue May 19, 2019 · 1 comment

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arjunv27 commented May 19, 2019 •
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Problem

content addressed hashing is sensitive to whitespace
Alternative syntaxes can create multiple identities with a single semantics

Solution

Use canonical jsonn
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behind the scenes IPID uses IPLD and thus the json is canonicalized to dag-cbor. thus whitespace is removed, attributes are ordered deterministically.

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