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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 05-Mar-2018 06:22:30 UTC Hallå Kitteh
   @benis I don't see how it's any more easy or difficult to teach your software 0x14 than to teach it "urn:sha512". The urn namespace is greater, that's the difference.
   
   Human-readable is nice. But I don't believe there will be a generic client smart enough to understand how to use SHA-512 on Gnutella. You need a Gnutella client and it needs to already understand SHA-512.
   
   I don't see any forward compatibility in BEP 0003:
   
   > pieces maps to a string whose length is a multiple of 20. It is to be subdivided into strings of length 20, each of which is the SHA1 hash of the piece at the corresponding index.
   
   And I don't see any other mention of "hash" on http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0000.html , except mentions of infohash that don't seem to affect the core protocol.