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A website for decoding CIDs
https://cid.ipfs.tech/#bafybeigdyrzt5sfp7udm7hu76uh7y26nf3efuylqabf3oclgtqy55fbzdi
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"human-readable" CID form should match spec #39

Open olizilla opened 3 years ago

olizilla commented 3 years ago

...or spec should match what this site does.

https://github.com/multiformats/cid#human-readable-cids

# corresponding human readable CID
base58btc - cidv1 - raw - sha2-256-256-6e6ff7950a36187a801613426e858dce686cd7d7e3c0fc42ee0330072d245c95

https://cid.ipfs.io/#zb2rhe5P4gXftAwvA4eXQ5HJwsER2owDyS9sKaQRRVQPn93bA

Human readable CID
base58btc - cidv1 - raw - (sha2-256 : 256 : 6E6FF7950A36187A801613426E858DCE686CD7D7E3C0FC42EE0330072D245C95)
lidel commented 3 years ago

I'm :+1: for making things more clear, but sha2-256-256- is confusing: a reader does not know where hash name ends, and where length starts without a double take.

(a : b : c) removes ambiguity + makes it clear which segments are part of multihash, but perhaps there is better way of showing this? I think we should update specs and make them more clear, and them make cid.ipfs.io follow it.