Bamboo: An append-only log data type that ensures security and authenticity of arbitrary data in order to share it in a decentralised and trustless setting.
CBOR: Concise Binary Object Representation data format used for encoding operations.
Document: Conflict free multi-writer data type which represents most application and system data in p2panda.
Hash: The result of applying a hashing function to some data, this hash is used to uniquely identify and verify the hashed data.
Hashing: A cryptography method that converts any form of data to a unique text string.
Hexadecimal Encoding: Human-friendly representation of binary-coded values using the hexadecimal numeral system. The p2panda GraphQL APIs require values to be hex-encoded.
Key Pair: A string of data that is used to lock or unlock cryptographic functions, including authentication, authorization and encryption.
Operation: p2panda data type which describes data mutations. Collections of linked operations form causal mutation graphs which are the foundation for p2panda Documents.