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@ -691,13 +691,13 @@ Content on LBRY is encoded to facilitate distribution.
#### Blobs
The smallest unit of data is called a _blob_. A blob is a chunk of data up to 2MiB in size. Each blob is indexed by its _blob hash_, which is a SHA-384 hash of the blob. Addressing blobs by their hashes protects against naming collisions and ensures that data cannot be accidentally or maliciously modified.
The smallest unit of data is called a _blob_. A blob is a chunk of data up to 2MB in size. Each blob is indexed by its _blob hash_, which is a SHA-384 hash of the blob. Addressing blobs by their hashes protects against naming collisions and ensures that data cannot be accidentally or maliciously modified.
#### Streams
Multiple blobs are combined into a _stream_. A stream may be a book, a movie, a CAD file, etc. All content on the network is shared as streams. Every stream begins with the _manifest blob_, followed by one or more _content blobs_. The content blobs hold the actual content of the stream. The manifest blob contains information necessary to find the content blobs and decode them into a file. This includes the hashes of the content blobs, their order in the stream, and cryptographic material for decrypting them.
Content blobs are encrypted using AES-256 in CBC mode and PKCS7 padding. In order to keep each encrypted blob at 2MiB max, a blob can hold at most 2097151 bytes (2MiB minus 1 byte) of plaintext data. The source code for the exact algorithm is available [here](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/blob/master/stream/blob.go). The encryption key and the initialization vectors for each blob are stored in the manifest blob.
Content blobs are encrypted using AES-256 in CBC mode and PKCS7 padding. In order to keep each encrypted blob at 2MB max, a blob can hold at most 2097151 bytes (2MB minus 1 byte) of plaintext data. The source code for the exact algorithm is available [here](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry.go/blob/master/stream/blob.go). The encryption key and the initialization vectors for each blob are stored in the manifest blob.
The blob hash of the manifest blob is called the _stream hash_. It uniquely identifies each stream.