docs: name content-hash keys (CHKs) in section 8 "original Freenet" paragraph - #1
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…ed storage The "Content-addressed storage" paragraph in section 8 credited IPFS (2014) with popularizing hash-based naming, but the original Freenet introduced the same idea in its content-hash keys (CHKs) around 1999-2000, roughly 14 years earlier. Add that priority while keeping IPFS's later role in popularizing the pattern for web content. [AI-assisted - Claude] Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
The "The original Freenet" paragraph in section 8 describes the system as "content-addressed, immutable file storage from 2001" without naming the actual addressing scheme — content-hash keys (CHKs). The 2001 date is also the paper year; the system itself was released around 2000.
Change
One-line edit to the "The original Freenet" paragraph in
sections/08-related.tex. No change to the IPFS / "Content-addressed storage" paragraph — the section's pattern is one anchor system per paragraph, so the lineage credit belongs in this dedicated paragraph rather than redirecting the IPFS paragraph.Diff:
Testing
makebuilds clean locally (22-page PDF, no LaTeX errors).Note on prior iteration
An earlier version of this PR edited the "Content-addressed storage" paragraph to credit Freenet's CHKs as prior art to IPFS. That framing risked an overreach priority claim (Mojo Nation, OceanStore, PAST, CFS were contemporaneous), and conflicted with the section's one-anchor-per-paragraph pattern. The dedicated "The original Freenet" paragraph is the natural place for this content. History force-pushed to keep the branch minimal.
[AI-assisted - Claude]