Declare Your Independence with IPFS! ~ Corbett Report Extras

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[–]cyber_burn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

ipfs sounds really interesting. haven't read much about it - what prevents a malicious node from attacking users?

like someone's node saying they have the website you're looking for, but they've added additional malicious code.

edit: oh cool i found this. they use immutable hashes for content. https://medium.com/@yaniv_g/hosting-websites-on-ipfs-with-ipns-b94659c42b52

though according to this person's explanation, you might have to check the hash yourself manually? doesn't seem like that would be hard to automate. couldn't you kick a node off the network if they have a different hash or just not connect users to that node if the hash doesn't match the content hash of what they're trying to access.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Better than the censored Wikipedia article: https://infogalactic.com/info/InterPlanetary_File_System

[–]cyber_burn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

ah so it uses blockchain. thanks for the better link. guess the guy in the article i posted misunderstood.

also why is the wikipedia article so lacking?

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Sort of. I think.

IPFS is developed by Protocol Labs and they are developing 5 distinctly different projects intended to work with each other.

Filecoin is one of those other projects, and I believe they use blockchain.

I believe block storage is slightly different: https://infogalactic.com/info/Block_(data_storage)

[–]cyber_burn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

yea i think i misunderstood. read about block storage and the immutable hashes and the way they described how nodes don't need to trust one another, and it sounded like a ledger to me. but i don't think that's quite right.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Immutable hashes is the most important part. It's a strength and a weakness. Some things are meant to be mutable, changeable, updated, improved, etc and IPFS didn't have an easy fix for this, but they were working on it. It's been a while so maybe they've got something figured out now.

Ultimately it makes for a great vault.

[–]cyber_burn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

true. seems ideal for static file hosting, but i can see how that would be a problem for sites under rapid development, or even standard bugfixes and new features. going to start reading more about this - i'd really like to see decentralization become a standard.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Check out Holochain too (a terrible name for several reasons) as it sounds very similar.

[–]cyber_burn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

will do. thanks.

[–]Arundel 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

IPFS does not use blockchain. It has neither blocks nor chains.