Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: RFC: Fake IDs

[Jack Lloyd]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 05:24:08PM -0700, Graydon Hoare wrote:

> It's easy enough to start with the "all zero" SHA1 and count upwards. 
> It's probably even fine if you just run through the first 2^64 of them 
> for now; you can't store anywhere near that much data in an sqlite 
> database.

Sounds to me like IDs need a unique namespace for "this bitstring
generated by algorithm X" (X = sha1,random,counter,sha256,...)

</my2cents>