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# Terminology
-## Dat Terms
-
Terms specific to the Dat software.
### dat, Dat archive, archive
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When you create a dat, you're creating a `.dat` folder to hold the metadata and the dat keys (a public and secret key).
-### Dat Link or Dat Key
-
-Identifier for a dat, e.g. `dat://ab3ed4f...`. These are 64 character hashes with the `dat://` protocol prefix. Anyone with the Dat link can download and re-share files in a dat.
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### Secret Key
Dat links are the public part of a key pair. Users that have the secret key are able to write updates to a dat.
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A feed is a term we use interchangeably with the term "append-only log". It’s the lowest level component of Dat. For each Dat, there are two feeds - the metadata and the content.
-Feeds are created with hypercore.
+Feeds are created with hypercore.
### Metadata Feed