What is hashed?
 

I downloaded the latest version of morpheus and was curious about the hashed thing.

TIA!

As far as I can tell, Hashed means that the file is in a list of files that you are sharing. If you have a file that is not hashed, it may be in your shared folder, but it is not being shared.

If I'm mistaken, please correct me so that we will all know.

Hashed means that the program add a piece of data on to the file and when u return a search it compares the hashes of all the files. If the files have the same hash, the Program will group them together. Thus this makes sure that all of the sources you d/l from have the exact same file

A hash is algorithm used to check the validity of data. If you hash a file and change one bit the hash comes out differant. If you want more information I'd suggest "Applied Cryptography" and I have a few links.


http://www.anujseth.com/crypto/ (not all the information is up yet)

http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip180-1.htm (This one has information on SHA1 (Secure Hash Algorithm, I believe it's used by gnucleus and others).

You can search for other hash alogrithms like MD5, RC4 etc.

And hash is buggy...
 

...in Morpheus 1.9.x and gnucleus 1.8.x (until 1.8.4)

Read my post.

However, Morpheus 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 have the handshake bug of Gnucleus 1.8.2 (corrected in 1.8.3), so it is hurting the Gnutella network.