. *Content-Addressed Storage(((content-addressed storage)))* -- When other information or files are required to be referenced (for example from a smart contract) it is often useful to refer to the specific file (or information) using Content-Addressed Storage which refers to such information/files using a hash of their content. By doing so, it is immediately possible to determine whether the contents have been changed, since the reference to find the information/file is a hash that should match the computed hash of the content--which can be done at any point. Furthermore, such a referencing scheme allows for deduplication of information, e.g., if the same image data is referred to twice, only one version of the file needs to be stored since both references will be computed to be the same hash.
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