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by OCTAGRAM 207 days ago
Yeah. Advanced Direct Connect p2p is using TIGER Tree Hash. Gnutella2 p2p is using TIGER Tree Hash. There is BitTorrent format extension to include per-file TTH, implemented by EAD TorrentBuild. For best performance we should also get rid of pointless per-block hashes in torrent files.

TTH is universal for p2p, and yet developers choose another hashes, making their tools not ready for p2p.

My lovely Mercurial is unfortunately also not ready for p2p