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| -rw-r--r-- | proposals/0000-hypercore.md | 2 |
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diff --git a/proposals/0000-hypercore.md b/proposals/0000-hypercore.md index d6c7696..ea13ae1 100644 --- a/proposals/0000-hypercore.md +++ b/proposals/0000-hypercore.md @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ The nodes in this tree would be calculated as follows: 10 = h(chunk5) ``` -In the Hypercore feed, we only want one active root. Therefore, when there are multiple roots we hash all the roots together again. We also include a big endian uint64 binary representation of the corresponding node index (TODO: why?). At most there will be `log2(number of data blocks)`. +In the Hypercore feed, we only want one active root. Therefore, when there are multiple roots we hash all the roots together again. We also include a big endian uint64 binary representation of the corresponding node index to ensure that the hash describes the tree structure and not just the underlying data. At most there will be `log2(number of data blocks)`. ``` root = h(uint64be(#9) + 9 + uint64be(#3) + 3) |