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docs: CIDs as deterministic
License: MIT Signed-off-by: Randall Harmon <[email protected]>
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A *content identifier*, or CID, is a label used as a standardized way of pointing to material in IPFS. It doesn't indicate _where_ the content is stored, but it forms a kind of address out of the content itself. CIDs are consistently compact, regardless of the size of underlying content.
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CIDs are based on the content's [cryptographic hash](concepts/hashes). As a result, any difference in content will produce a different CID. Any IPFS node having the content will be able to match the hash and be able to retrieve the original content.
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CIDs are based on the content's [cryptographic hash](concepts/hashes). As a result, any difference in content will produce a different CID; also, a given piece of content added to two different IPFS nodes using the same settings will produce exactly the same CID.
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## CID formats
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