Content Identity and UUID Derivation (src/content.rs)

Derives content-addressed UUIDs from record bytes without coordination or clocks. Reuse when building decentralized storage or content-addressable file systems.

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//! Content identity: the convergent uuid derived from a record's bytes.
//!
//! A record's identity is assigned at discovery and rebound by evidence. Its
//! content's identity is *derived*, so two machines that have never
//! communicated compute the same id for the same bytes, offline, retroactively,
//! with no coordination and no clock. That is what makes a content id an
//! address rather than a local handle, and it is the only rebind evidence that
//! survives crossing to another device: path is weak, and inode does not travel
//! at all.
//!
//! The hash is a ladder, so t

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